Burthens which ourselves did bear
We would on others lay
Till He all the truth declare,
And bring the perfect day:
Sun of righteousness, appear,
And light we in thy light shall see,
See, our whole of duty here,
Our heaven—is Love to thee.
Burdens which ourselves did bear
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Saying, that it was needful to circumcise them &c.’—[Acts 15,] v. 5.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 366.
Publishing: Public Domain