O most compassionate High-priest, Thy days of flesh

Verse 1
O most compassionate High-priest,
Thy days of flesh recall to mind,
Tempted like us, aggriev’d, opprest,
To all thy tempted Members join’d
Support them, while they drink thy cup,
And fill thine after-sufferings up.

Verse 2
Sustain’d by thy sufficient grace
Preserv’d by thy or’eshadowing power,
Let them the hallow’d cross embrace,
And brought thro’ the Satanic hour,
Out of the fiery furnace rise,
To share thy glory in the skies.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “For the Tempted.” This hymn was included in a manuscript titled “Hymns of Intercession” or “MS Intercession.” This manuscript is held by the Methodist Archive and Research Centre of the John Rylands Library at The University of Manchester (accession number DDCW 6/68–70). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 3 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1992), page 228.
Publishing: Public Domain