Who promis’d with his Lord to die,
But sinks so soon, by sleep o’recome,
Did he not on himself rely,
And rash on his own strength presume?
Gently rebuk’d, and call’d again,
Full of himself he slights the call,
Who will not see must blind remain,
And fall, to wake him from his fall.
Who promised with his Lord to die
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Simon, sleepest thou? couldst thou not watch one hour?’—[Mark 14,] v. 37.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 78.
Publishing: Public Domain