The same necessity
Is on the members laid;
And hated by the world like Thee
We imitate our Head,
Pursue the narrow way,
Beneath thy burthens groan;
And thus prepar’d we see thy day,
While sharers of thy throne.
The same necessity
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.’—[Luke 17,] v. 25.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 165.
Publishing: Public Domain