Thee, Lord, we our Example see

Verse 1
Thee, Lord, we our example see,
Hard-threatned by the world, like Thee:
Satan employs his ministers
T’ alarm us by a thousand fears,
Weaken our hands, dismay our heart,
And make us from the work depart.

Verse 2
But arm’d with thy undaunted zeal
We slight who can the body kill,
Their feeble menaces disdain,
Our path pursue, our post maintain,
In dangers, snares, and deaths live on,
Immortal till our work is done.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘There came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence, for Herod will kill thee.'—[Luke 13,] v. 31.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 222.
Publishing: Public Domain