Verse 1
The law which Jesus gives
Who will not yet obey,
A burthen to himself he lives,
Nor finds the narrow way:
But who himself denies,
And keeps the patient word,
Charg’d with the cross, he runs, he flies,
To meet his heavenly Lord.
Verse 2
To suffer, and abstain
My calling here I see,
Renounce myself, my Lord to gain,
And die, to live with Thee:
With Thee I daily die,
Thy welcom burthen bear,
And follow after to the sky,
And claim a kingdom there.