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.
Soon as we truly willing are
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