Call’d my Master to confess,
Suffering for my faithfulness,
By th’ appointment of his will
Do I not his word fulfil?
Christ’s afflictions now are mine,
Now I answer God’s design,
For the Head and body’s sake
Jesus’ cup and cross partake.
Called my Master to confess
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The scripture must be fulfilled.’—[Mark 14,] v. 49.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 64-65.
Publishing: Public Domain