Who his Lord and Pattern knows,
Will render good for ill,
Seek again his cruel foes,
Though him they sought to kill:
To his charge he hastens back,
His faith in thickest dangers proves;
Cannot finally forsake
Whom more than life he loves.
Who his Lord and pattern knows
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch.’—[Acts 14,] v. 21.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 292.
Publishing: Public Domain