{"id":"cw/hymns/misc/034-in-temptation","corpus":"cw-hymns-misc","type":"hymn","author":"charles-wesley","title":"034 In Temptation","title_alt":[],"text_basis":null,"date_composed":"1740","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-034-in-temptation","passage_ids":["cw-034-in-temptation-full"],"word_count":157,"themes_auto":["assurance","christology","works-mercy"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["cw-034-in-temptation-full"],"passages":[{"id":"cw-034-in-temptation-full","author":"charles-wesley","source_id":"cw-034-in-temptation","source_title":"034 In Temptation","source_type":"hymn","year":1740,"chunk_index":0,"text":"In Temptation In Temptation.34 Sinking underneath my load, Darkly feeling after thee, Let me ask, my God, my God, Why hast thou forsaken me! Why, O why am I forgot! Lord, I seek, but find thee not. Still I ask, nor yet receive, Knock at the unopen'd door; Still I struggle to believe, Hope, tho' urg'd to hope no more, Bearing what I cannot bear, Yielding, fighting with despair. Hear in mercy my complaint, Hear, and hasten to my aid, Help, or utterly I faint, Fails the spirit thou hast made; Save me, or my foe prevails, Save me, or thy promise fails. Struggling in the fowler's snare, Lo! I ever look to thee: Tempted more than I can bear No, my soul, it cannot be; True and faithful is the word, Sure the coming of thy Lord. 34This hymn appeared first in the 2nd edn. of HSP (1739), 102-3; it was then moved to this collection.","word_count":157,"source_url":null,"themes":["christology","works-mercy","assurance"],"is_full_hymn":true,"created_at":"2026-01-29T18:25:13.045639"}]}