At thy command we rise,
And hence depart with Thee,
Strong in the strength thy cross supplies
We walk to Calvary;
With thy obedience meet
The summons from above,
And, like our Lord, by death compleat
Our sacrifice of love.
At Thy command we rise
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Arise, let us go hence.’—[John 14,] v. 31." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 17.
Publishing: Public Domain