And shall Thy followers, Lord, complain

And shall thy followers, Lord, complain,
Unjustly doom’d by sinful men,
Or patiently thy lot receive,
Judg’d by the world “not fit to live?”

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “They answered and said, HE is guilty of death.”—[Matt.] xxvi. 66. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 412.
Publishing: Public Domain