Follower of Christ, thy calling see!

Verse 1
Follower of Christ, thy calling see!
Inrag’d at Him for doing good,
The world will never pardon thee,
But counsel take to shed thy blood,
With madness of Satanic zeal
The servant, as his Lord, to kill.

Verse 2
Whoe’er thou art, resolv’d to trace
That Friend and Patron of mankind,
Expect from an ungrateful race
Thy Saviour’s recompense to find,
Yet bold go on, thy life lay down,
Endure the cross, and win the crown.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They were filled with madness, and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.'—[Luke 6,] v. 11.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 96-97.
Publishing: Public Domain