Why should a mortal man complain,
When sentenc’d to a life of pain?
Why should a saint by grace restor’d
Expect to be above his Lord?
There’s no immunity from woe,
No perfect paradise below,
Not holiness itself can save
A saint, a sinner, from the grave.
Why should a mortal man complain
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “In sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.”—[Gen.] iii. 17. 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 10.
Publishing: Public Domain