Our long-expected Jesus

Verse 1
Our long-expected Jesus
Ah, when wilt Thou appear
From all our griefs release us
From all our sufferings here?
This mighty tribulation
Shall in thy presence end,
And partners of thy passion,
We shall thy throne ascend.

Verse 2
Who on thy word relying
Endure th’ allotted pain,
Distrest and daily dying
We shall thy life obtain:
The joy display’d before thee,
Thou wilt on us bestow,
Who on thy cross adore thee
And share thy deepest woe.

Verse 3
In hope of the salvation
Thou didst so dearly buy,
With humble resignation
Our latest death we die,
Thy torment undiminish’d
In patient love abide,
Till Thou repeat Tis finish’d,
And take us to thy side.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘If we be dead with him we shall also live with him: If we suffer, we shall also reign with him.’—[2 Tim.] 2:11–12.” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” 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 1977/576, 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. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 106.
Publishing: Public Domain