Calm he hears their furious cry

Verse 1
Calm he hears their furious cry
Who clamour for his blood,
Knows, his life above the sky
Is hid with Christ in God,
Knows, he must fulfil his race,
And suffer out his time below:
Fittest for that heavenly place
He then to God shall go.

Verse 2
Ye that now the news proclaim
Of a redeeming Lord,
Witnessing with Paul the same,
Expect the same reward;
Judg’d unfit, while here ye rove,
To tread the earth or breathe the air,
Lift your hearts to things above,
And seek your mansions there.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Away with such a fellow from the earth &c.’—[Acts 22, v. 22.]" 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 398.
Publishing: Public Domain