Death & Dying

Acts: Of evangelic pains afraid

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 12 (1872)

Death & Dying

Of evangelic pains afraid,
With danger or fatigue dismay'd,
Ah, why did he draw back?
Counsel with flesh and blood he took,
That the good work which he forsook
I never may forsake.

Or if I have turn'd back in heart,
Or basely threaten'd to depart,
And from my brethren fly,
My weakness, Lord, Wktjohn I mourn,
And by Thy gracious help return
With them to live and die.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Acts: Of evangelic pains afraid.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/6420/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Acts: Of evangelic pains afraid.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/6420/.

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