Yes; for we are not yet in hell,
Worthy the fiercest torments there,
With kindred fiends we do not dwell,
Or gnaw our tongues thro’ vain despair;
Chastis’d, we still on earth remain,
Patient beneath thy judgments grieve,
And short of that eternal pain,
’Tis mercy, all we can receive!
Yes; for we are not yet in hell
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve.”—[Ezra] ix. 13. 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 222.
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