Following Christ when danger’s near

Verse 1
Following Christ, when danger’s near,
Leaving friends, we pray apart,
Tell him all our grief and fear,
Pour out all our troubled heart,
Bow our soul’s and body’s knee
To the Lord of earth and skies,
Prostrate in humility,
Mixt with Jesus’ sacrifice.

Verse 2
Every knee shall bow before
God’s tremendous righteousness:
Jesus on his knees adore!
God supreme, as Man he prays!
Angels tremble at the sight,
Cast their crowns before his throne:
We our prayer to his unite,
God respects them both as one.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He was withdrawn from them, and kneeled down, and prayed.'—[Luke 22,] v. 41.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 290.
Publishing: Public Domain