Who their own desires pursue

Verse 1
Who their own desires pursue
Their want of faith declare,
Their own violent will to do
They always ready are,
God’s appointed time out-run8
And full of selfish forwardness
Boldly snatch the gift unknown
Th’ anticipated grace.

Verse 2
Now, just now, is nature’s word
Impatient of delay!
Guided by thy will, O Lord,
I for thy leizure stay,
Dare not set a time to Thee,
Or dictate, When thyself to show:
Give whate’er Thou wilt to me,
And as Thou wilt bestow.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is always ready.’—[John 7,] v. 6." 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 397.
Publishing: Public Domain