The law which Jesus gives

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.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.’—[Matt. 16,] v. 24.” Wesley originally published verse 2 in his 1762 hymnal "Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2" (Bristol: Farley, 1762). He later added verse 1 in his unpublished 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 303.
Publishing: Public Domain