The time of death and pain
Our Master calls his own,
Who came our sorrows to sustain,
And groan our mortal groan:
And we who call him Head
In Jesus’ footsteps move,
His suffering life on earth we lead,
His blisful life above.
The time of death and pain
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The Master saith, My time is come.’—[Matt. 26,] v. 18.” This hymn appears in the 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 399.
Publishing: Public Domain