Trusting his own weak heart
He could not God believe,
Who vow’d, though all beside depart,
He will to Jesus cleave:
“Thy persecuted Lord[“]Thou canst not now pursue:”
He tries, but finds the slighted word,
By sad experience true.
Trusting his own weak heart
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Simon Peter followed Jesus.’—John 18, v. 15." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 266.
Publishing: Public Domain