Thrice he promis’d to confess,
Thrice his suffering Lord denies,
Thus performs his promises,
Bonds and death he thus defies!
But let Jesus’ look convert;
Then the reed a rock shall prove,
Thrice express his faithful heart,
Thrice protest his humble love.
Thrice he promised to confess
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Peter then denied again, and immediately the cock crew.’—[John 18,] v. 27." 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 73.
Publishing: Public Domain