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Mark 14:52: Christ by the youth's escape makes known
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 11 (1871)
Christ by the youth's escape makes known
His power and guardian care,
And thus admonishes His own
To fly the coming snare:
Shows the malicious world's design
His followers all to seize.
And bids us still the storm decline
Of furious wickedness.
Weakest of Thy disciples, young
In inexperienced grace,
I dare not meet the' outrageous throng.
Or now Thy cross embrace:
Sufficient strength to die with Thee
Yet while I cannot find.
Naked, I from their violence flee,
And leave the world behind.
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Wesley, Charles. “Mark 14:52: Christ by the youth's escape makes known.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4945/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Mark 14:52: Christ by the youth's escape makes known.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4945/.
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