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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