Who Jesus seek with zeal sincere

Verse 1
Who Jesus seek with zeal sincere
No dangers can excite my fear,
I mark the hindrances that rise,
But love thro’ all undaunted flies:

Verse 2
Impel’d by active love, I come
To find him in his empty tomb,
Nor mind the obstacles I see
Quite insurmountable by me.

Verse 3
My impotence to Him is known:
I cannot roll away the stone,
But humbly trust in my Belov’d,
And mountains are by faith remov’d.

Verse 4
While at the sepulchre I stay,
The mountain shall be roll’d away,
And I shall see my Lord arise,
Drawn by his Spirit to the skies.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?’—[Mark 16,] v. 3.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 71.
Publishing: Public Domain