Yet dost Thou, Lord, Thy wrath forbear

Verse 1
Yet dost thou, Lord, thy wrath forbear,
My righteous punishment defer,
Time after time reprieve,
Thou dost not speedy vengeance take,
But still for thy own mercy sake
Permittest me to live.

Verse 2
I live to render thee the praise,
A monument of thy patient grace
Thy patient grace I own,
Pluck’d as a brand out of the flame,
Spar’d for the glory of thy name,
The glory of thy Son.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.”—[Isa.] xlviii. 9. 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 424.
Publishing: Public Domain