Through fear of the self-righteous Jews

Verse 1
Thro’ fear of the self-righteous Jews
Who Jesus secretly pursues,
And lurks a while unknown,
May out of weakness be made strong,
And bold before the worldly throng
His Lord and Saviour own.

Verse 2
Soon as his death confers the grace,
Jesus we unasham’d confess;
His weakest follower I
Appear undaunted in his cause,
Live in the spirit of his cross
Or dare for Christ to die.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body.’—[John 19,] v. 38." 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 91.
Publishing: Public Domain