Whene’er my Father in the skies
Is forc’d this rebel to chastise,
He makes his goodness known,
And while my feeble flesh he grieves,
A charge with the affliction gives
“Deal gently with my son!”
Whene’er my Father in the skies
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom.”—II. Sam. xviii. 5. 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 171.
Publishing: Public Domain