We who our Saviour’s word receive,
The city of destruction leave,
Anticipate the coming woe,
Withdraw our hearts from all below;
From sin we take our hasty flight,
Contending for the mountain’s height,
The world forsake for Jesus’ love,
And find our life conceal’d above.
We who our Saviour’s word receive
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains.'—[Luke 21,] v. 21.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 188.
Publishing: Public Domain