The men that suffer in Thy cause

The men that suffer in thy cause
To faint beneath their heaviest cross,
Jesus, Thou dost not leave,
But all thy confessors defend,
Give them thy patience to the end,
And then thy glory give.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘On him they laid the cross that they [he] might bear it after Jesus.'—[Luke 23,] v. 26.” 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 299.
Publishing: Public Domain