Stay, thou insulted Spirit, stay

Stay, thou insulted Spirit, stay. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). From Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749), Volume I, the last of nine ‘Penitential Hymns’ (see also ‘O Jesus my hope’*; the two 1749 volumes have many such hymns of penitence). It had seven stanzas: Stay, Thou insulted Spirit, stay,  Tho’ I have done Thee such Despite,Nor cast the Sinner quite away,  Nor take thine everlasting Flight. Tho’ I have steel’d my stubborn Heart,  And still shook off my guilty Fears,And vex’d, and urg’d Thee to depart  For forty long rebellious Years: Tho’ I have most unfaithful been,  Of All who e’er thy Grace receiv’d,Ten Thousand times thy Goodness seen,  Ten Thousand times thy Goodness griev’d. Yet...

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