Hymns · 1762

Struggling for mastery within

Details

Hymnal / album Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2

Publisher Farley

Copyright Public Domain (Disclaimer: This is not legal advice. The publication year, if correct, suggests that this work may be in public domain in the U.S..)

Notes Originally titled “He took his brother by the heel in the womb.”—[Hosea] xii. 3. 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 79.

Scripture connections

References

Verses this song directly draws from

Genesis 25:22-26 Hosea 12:3

Allusions

Verses this song echoes or alludes to

Genesis 25:29-34 Genesis 27:36 I Corinthians 9:25

Lyrics

Struggling for mastery within
Nature and grace I feel;
But grace arrests my bosom-sin,
And grasps his brother’s heel: (Gen. 25:22-26, Hosea 12:3)
The younger still his sway maintains,
And treads the elder down,
Till grace the heavenly birth-right gains (Gen. 25:29-34, Gen. 27:36)
With an immortal crown. (I Cor. 9:25)