When vanquishing our sloth and ease
We wait at Jesus’ sepulchre,
The Lord removes the hindrances,
And scatters all our grief and fear,
Himself He to his mourners shows,
His Spirit in our hearts is shed,
Life on our drooping souls bestows,
And calls, and raises from the dead.
When vanquishing our sloth and ease
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The first day of the week &c.’—[John 20,] v. 1." 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 101.
Publishing: Public Domain