Urg’d, surrounded with temptations,
Toiling on a stormy sea,
Saviour, we have need of patience,
Saviour, we have need of thee:
Underneath thy cross support us,
Sent with Israel’s chariot down
’Till the flaming guards escort us
To thine everlasting throne.
Urged, surrounded with temptations
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Ye have need of patience.”—[Heb.] x. 36. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 147.
Publishing: Public Domain