When the wicked seek to slay

When the wicked seek to slay
Who Jesus testify,
Following Him, we ’scape away,
And from their violence fly,
Faithfully the truth commend,
And people to his guardian care,
Calmly on our Lord attend
In solitude and prayer.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Therefore they sought again to take him; but he escaped out of their hands, And went away again beyond Jordan.’—[John 10,] v. 39, 40." 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 246.
Publishing: Public Domain