Those who will not seek Him now

Verse 1
Those who will not seek him now,
While life and strength remain,
When their dying heads they bow,
Would seek the Lord in vain:
Casting now his words behind,
Seiz’d by the hellish messenger,
Nothing they in death shall find
But darkness and despair.

Verse 2
Jesus, Lord, to Thee I give
The glory, power, and praise;
Thou hast help’d me to believe,
And half unveil’d thy face:
O stir up my faithful heart
To seek, and still pursue the prize,
Till arriving where Thou art
I grasp thee in the skies.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Ye shall seek me and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.’—[John 7,] v. 34." 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 407.
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