A Christian should with Christ remain

Verse 1
A Christian should with Christ remain,
Contemplate that mysterious pain
Which we could never know,
If Christ did not in love reveal,
And give the tempted soul to feel
A portion of his woe.

Verse 2
The drop Thou didst to me bequeath
I taste; thy sorrow unto death,
It breaks my mournful heart:
But let me breathe my soul like Thee,
And with resign’d tranquillity
Into thy arms depart.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here and watch.’—[Mark 14,] v. 34.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 64.
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