Urged by the hostile world, unless

Urg’d by the hostile world, unless
The truth I testify,
And one of his, myself confess,
My Master I deny:
I still renounce my Lord in deed,
Unless I serve his will,
Obedient in his footsteps tread,
And all his mind fulfil.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then said the damsel, Art thou also one of this man’s disciples? He saith, I am not.’—John 18, v. 17." 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 267.
Publishing: Public Domain