This is our consolation, Lord,
The world’s fierce enmity
We bear, assur’d it first abhor’d
And persecuted Thee:
Thy friends in every age and place
Are hated by thy foe:
But if the scandal we embrace,
We shall the glory know.
This is our consolation, Lord
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.’—[John 15,] v. 18." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 29.
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