Labour is by God enjoin’d

Verse 1
Labour is by God injoin’d,
God forbids our needless care,
Toil of the mistrustful mind
Hung, like meteors, in the air,
Held in infidel suspense
Doubting his good Providence.

Verse 2
But whoe’er thy word receive,
We a firm support have found,
Free and undistracted live,
Built on an eternal ground,
Truth Divine which cannot move,
Boundless power, and endless love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Neither be ye of doubtful mind.’—[Luke 12,] v. 29.” 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 211.
Publishing: Public Domain