Still by the holy matrons led

Verse 1
Still by the holy matrons led,
Let us our dearest Lord pursue,
True to the Living and the Dead,
Nor ever lose him from our view,
By contrite grief and humble fear
Our strict fidelity approve,
And follow on, and persevere
In stedfast faith and constant love.

Verse 2
Him in his life and death we trace,
In every state to Jesus come,
Our Saviour on the cross confess,
Our Saviour in the silent tomb:
Low in the silent tomb He lies,
Worthy to be by all ador’d,
He lives immortal in the skies
Our glorious Head, our heavenly Lord!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of Jesus, beheld where he was laid.’—[Mark 15,] v. 47.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 70. The first half of each verse was published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 91.
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