Excused from every needless care

Excus’d from every needless care,
My privilege I see,
Jesus, thine only burthen bear,
And live, to follow thee.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Let the dead bury their dead.”—[Matt.] viii. 22. 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 216.
Publishing: Public Domain