Few will risk the consequence,
And dare the truth confess,
Standing bold in the defence
Of Jesus witnesses:
Prudently, themselves to clear,
The burthen they on others lay:
But they must to God appear,
And answer in that day!
Few will risk the consequence
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He is of age, ask him.’—[John 9,] v. 21." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 445.
Publishing: Public Domain