Who from the world retreat

Verse 1
Who from the world retreat
Their Saviour-God to meet,
Trials strange at first they prove,
Seiz’d with horrible affright,
But their fear gives place to love,
Holy joy, and pure delight.

Verse 2
Buried where Jesus lies,
Out of his grave we rise,
Know that there He lies no more,
Feel the grace on us bestow’d,
Conscious of his quickning power,
Fill’d with all the life of God.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Be not affrighted: ye seek Jesus which was crucified: he is risen, he is not here &c.’—[Mark 16,] v. 6.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/574, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 92.
Publishing: Public Domain