Who trust in His protecting grace

Verse 1
Who trust in his protecting grace,
Nor rash, nor negligent,
We use the common means and ways
For our deliverance sent:
Thro’ love and honour of the cross,
The stewards of his word,
We dare not prejudice the cause
And interest of our Lord.

Verse 2
Labouring till all our work is done
The middle course we steer,
With equal care and caution shun
Audaciousness and fear:
We neither tremble, nor presume,
Prepar’d to stand, or fly;
But when the joyful hour is come,
We get us up, and die.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue.’—[Acts 17,] v. 10." 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 332.
Publishing: Public Domain