But I without delay

But I without delay
My Saviour’s voice obey,
No pretended duty plead,
Summon’d by the gospel-word:
Let the dead intomb their dead,
Let the living serve their Lord.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Another of his disciples said unto him, suffer me first to go and bury my father.’—[Matt. 8,] v. 21.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 216.
Publishing: Public Domain