After we have endur’d a while,
The Lord rewards our patient toil,
Establishes our hearts with grace,
And perfects us in holiness;
But if impatiently we rise
To offer sinless sacrifice,
The power we shall not long maintain,
Or kings without our Saviour reign.
After we have endured a while
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Now would the Lord have established thy kingdom forever: but now thy kingdom shall not continue.”—I. Sam. xiii. 13, 14. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 158.
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