{"id":"cw/hymns/misc/001-gods-love-and-power","corpus":"cw-hymns-misc","type":"hymn","author":"charles-wesley","title":"001 Gods Love And Power","title_alt":[],"text_basis":null,"date_composed":"1741","date_precision":"year","date_note":null,"numbering":{"bicentennial":null,"jackson_running":null,"sugden":null},"source_edition":{"editor":null,"title":null,"edition":null,"place":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"volume":null,"pages":null,"scan_url":null,"scan_page_ids":null},"transcription":{"derived_from":null,"corrected_against_scan":false,"corrector":null,"corrected_on":null},"modernization":"none","license_text":"Public Domain Mark 1.0","license_apparatus":"CC BY 4.0","wikidata":null,"prev":null,"next":null,"part_of":"cw-hymns-misc","editorial_note":null,"source_id":"cw-001-gods-love-and-power","passage_ids":["cw-001-gods-love-and-power-full"],"word_count":182,"themes_auto":["reign-of-god","repentance","social-holiness"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["cw-001-gods-love-and-power-full"],"passages":[{"id":"cw-001-gods-love-and-power-full","author":"charles-wesley","source_id":"cw-001-gods-love-and-power","source_title":"001 Gods Love And Power","source_type":"hymn","year":1741,"chunk_index":0,"text":"God's Love and Power I felt my heart, and found a chillness cool Its purple channels in my frozen side; The spring was now become a standing pool, Deprived of motion, and its active tide. O stay! O stay! I ever freeze if banish'd from thy ray: A lasting warmth thy secret beams beget; Thou art a sun which cannot rise or set. Then thaw this ice, and make my frost retreat, But let with temp'rate rays thy lustre shine; Thy judgment's lightning, but thy love is heat, Those would consume my heart, but this refine. Inspire, inspire! And melt my soul with thy more equal fire; So shall a pensive deluge drown my fears, My ice turn water, and dissolve in tears. After thy love, if I continue hard, If sin again knit, and confirm'd be grown, If guilt rebel, and stand upon his guard, And what was ice before freeze into stone; Reprove, reprove! Thy power assist thee to revenge thy love: Lo, thou hast still thy threats and thunder left, The stone that can't be melted may be cleft!","word_count":182,"source_url":null,"themes":["social-holiness","repentance","reign-of-god"],"is_full_hymn":true,"created_at":"2026-01-29T18:33:03.762919"}]}