Lamb without spot, who didst give up

Verse 1
Lamb without spot, who didst give up
Thyself to worrying wolves a prey,
Thou art thy suffering people’s hope;
With us in our temptation stay,
Nor leave thy church to Satan’s power,
Nor let the sheeplike wolves devour.

Verse 2
The persecutor’s rage refrain
Who tears thy church with cruel scorn,
Baffle the furious wrath of man,
Or strangely to thy glory turn,
Into a lamb the wolf convert,
And bless with a new meeken’d heart.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.'—[Luke 10,] v. 3.” 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 191.
Publishing: Public Domain