What can feeble nature do?
One who on its strength relies,
Hardly keeps his Lord in view;
Dares not die when Jesus dies:
Closely who to Christ adhere,
Who his humble Spirit breathe,
Only they shall persevere
Firm, and faithful unto death.
What can feeble nature do?
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest’s palace, and went in, and sat with the servants.’—[Matt. 26,] v. 58.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 409.
Publishing: Public Domain