While in their hands the angels bear

Verse 1
While in their hands the angels bear,
Our Father’s providential care
We thankfully commend,
Safe in his guardian love confide,
But dare not by presumptuous pride
His glorious eyes offend.

Verse 2
Dangers we will not rashly brave,
Because Thou ready art to save,
And hid’st our life above:
A thousand proofs we daily find
That Thou art tender of mankind,
Art Power, and Truth, and Love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.’—[Luke 4,] v. 12.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 133.
Publishing: Public Domain