Who his mind on God hath stayed

Who his mind on God hath stay’d,
Is kept in perfect peace,
Neither troubled nor afraid
He lives his Lord to please,
Careless of approaching ill,
Himself to Jesus work he gives,
Lives to answer all his Will,
In snares and deaths he lives!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘No man laid hands on him, for his hour was not yet come.’—[John 8,] v. 20." 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 422.
Publishing: Public Domain