Teach me, Saviour, by Thy grace

Verse 1
Teach me, Saviour, by thy grace
To answer thy design,
When the threatning world to face,
And when their rage decline;
Far from rashness as from fear
I would not, Lord, myself expose,
Would not shrink from danger near,
Or dare, or dread my foes.

Verse 2
Thou by thy example guide
And certify my heart
When I should the storm abide,
And when I should depart:
Let me till thy time is come,
From place to place thy follower fly,
Fly, till thou recall me home
And then stand still, and die.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus baptized mo[re] disciples than John; He left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.’—[John 4,] v. 1, 3." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 352.
Publishing: Public Domain