Against distress foreshown
Preventing means we use,
Nor yet our Father’s will disown,
Or his decree refuse;
Who oft foretells in love;
That we may ’scape the ill,
And in our timely rescue prove
His acceptable will.
Against distress foreshown
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When we heard these things, we besought him not to go up to Jerusalem.’—[Acts 21,] v. 12." 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 384.
Publishing: Public Domain