Who waits for the applause of man
He loses his reward from God:
Thy prosper’d servants, Lord, constrain
To fly, when we have fed, the croud;
Drive us away reluctant, hide
Our souls from all the baits of pride.
Who waits for the applause of man
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.’—[Matt. 14,] v. 22.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 283.
Publishing: Public Domain