Call’d to sustain the hallow’d cross,
And suffer for thy righteous cause,
Pronounce me doubly blest,
And let thy glorious Spirit, Lord,
Assure me of my great reward
In heaven’s eternal feast.
Call’d to sustain the hallow’d cross
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Blessed are ye, when men shall persecute you for my sake.”—[Matt.] v. 11. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). 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 164.
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