Who never hast affiiction known

Verse 1
Who never hast affliction known,
Or smarted by a Father’s rod,
Sinner, thou art not yet a son,
Thou art not truly born of God,
Howe’er thou mayst thy soul deceive,
Thou never didst in Christ believe.

Verse 2
The stedfast word of God and sure
This mark of our adoption gives:
And he who doth not pain endure
The sinful life of nature lives;
And if he still at ease remain,
Shall soon inherit endless pain.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “If ye be without chastisement, ye are not sons.”—[Heb.] xii. 8. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 156.
Publishing: Public Domain