Allured by his Redeemer’s love

Verse 1
Allur’d by his Redeemer’s love,
Prevented by his secret grace,
He runs, with eagerness, above
All earthly things himself to raise,
Surmounts the judgment of mankind,
And leaves a scoffing world behind.

Verse 2
He waits in hope to see and know
The Lord in his appointed ways,
Where Christ is wont to pass, and show
Himself to those who seek his face,
Who all behold his love reveal’d,
And glory in their pardon seal’d.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore-tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.'—[Luke 19,] v. 4.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 263.
Publishing: Public Domain