Yet for a time He strives with all

Yet for a time he strives with all:
O may he strive with me,
Till quite recover’d from its fall
My soul is all like thee!

Hymnal/Album: Original title: “My Spirit shall not always strive with man.”—[Gen.] vi. 3. 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 14.
Publishing: Public Domain