Who Jesus’ word esteem,
And own him for our Head,
The world to us, and we to them
Are crucified, and dead:
Renouncing our first birth
With the desires of men,
We pass from all the things of earth;
And then our Canaan gain.
Who Jesu’s word esteem
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘From thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land.’—[Acts 7,] v. 4.” 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 201.
Publishing: Public Domain