Vouchsafe the grace for which I pray,
In mercy put my sin away,
I nothing ask beside,
But chasten’d by a pard’ning God,
Adore thy hand, and kiss the rod,
And pain ’till death abide.
Vouchsafe the grace for which I pray
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Howbeit ... the child shall die.”—[II. Sam.] xii. 14. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 169.
Publishing: Public Domain