Written by Charles Wesley under the title "Resignation," this twenty-two stanza poem of four lines was first published in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740). While the full poem never entered general hymnal usage, a selection comprising stanzas nine through twenty, beginning "When shall Thy love constrain," was included in the 1780 Wesleyan Hymn Book (No. 133) and retained in all subsequent editions. Another cento starting from stanza ten, "Ah! what avails my strife," saw limited use, while a third selection beginning at stanza fifteen, "And can I yet delay," gained wide adoption in American collections.
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