The times of Jesus’ grace

Verse 1
The times of Jesus’ grace
We should with care improve,
The joyous, evangelic days
Of our first rapt’rous love;
That when the light withdraws,
And troublous times succeed,
We boldly may take up our cross,
And suffer with our Head.

Verse 2
To Thee for help I cry,
While yet thy days I see;
When darkness and temptation’s nigh,
My Lord, remember me:
Thro’ death’s tremendous night
By angel-hosts convey,
My fearless soul, to see the light
Of thine eternal day.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The days will come when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.'—[Luke 17,] v. 22.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 164.
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