The caution is not vain

Verse 1
The caution is not vain:
We may unfaithful prove,
And turn from God to sin again,
And fall from pard’ning love:
Yet will we boldly press
Toward our high calling’s prize,
And follow after holiness,
And to perfection rise.

Verse 2
Perfection is the good
Which wrestling saints receive,
Worthy of all to be pursued
Who in our Lord believe:
Perfection is the goal
Which terminates our race;
And come to that, the spotless soul
Expires in his embrace.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Follow not that which is evil, but that which is good.”—[3 John] 11. 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. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 215.
Publishing: Public Domain