Nature innocently may
The bitter cup decline,
While in Jesus words we pray
Thy will be done, not mine!
Jesus’ patient Spirit breathe,
Daily bleed and suffer on,
Die the Saviour’s latest death,
And win the martyr’s crown.
Nature innocently may
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Another shall carry thee whither thou wouldest not.’—[John 21,] v. 18." 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 127.
Publishing: Public Domain