Christ and his truth when all desert,
Tis then our time to take his part,
Ourselves with boldness to declare,
And show, that we his followers are,
Resolv’d to suffer by his side,
And die with Jesus crucified.
Christ and His truth when all desert
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.’—[Matt. 27,] v. 58.” 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 434.
Publishing: Public Domain