We who Jesus’ Spirit know,
Meekly share his grief and pain,
Cannot bitter anger show,
Cannot of our foes complain,
Tho’ they seek to shed our blood,
Patient we the wrong abide,
Followers of a martyr’d God,
Him who for his murtherers died.
We who Jesus’ Spirit know
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.'—[Luke 9,] v. 55.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 115.
Publishing: Public Domain