Soon as we truly willing are

Soon as we truly willing are
To serve the Saviour’s cause,
Forc’d by an evil world, we bear
The scandal of thy cross:
At first we bear it thro’ constraint,
Till sprinkled with thy blood
No more we shrink, no more we faint,
But bless the welcome load.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Him they compelled to bear his cross.”—[Matt.] xxvii. 32. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 426.
Publishing: Public Domain