A sufferer for his Saviour’s cause
Cannot for sufferings pray,
Nor would th’ anticipated cross
On weak beginners lay:
He wishes them to rest unknown
Conceal’d from grief and shame,
Till Jesus calls them forth, to own,
And triumph thro’ his name.
A sufferer for his Saviour’s cause
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Except these bonds.’—[Acts 26,] v. 29." This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 433.
Publishing: Public Domain