With hasty grief and fear

With hasty grief and fear
Who seek the Crucified,
Visit the holy sepulchre,
And at his tomb abide,
I shall the proofs perceive,
The tokens more than see,
And quicken’d by his Spirit believe
He rose, to live in me.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then went in also that other disciple, and he saw, and believed.’—[John 20,] v. 8." 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 103.
Publishing: Public Domain