Verse 1
Women in days of old
Did Jesus flock increase,
The fearful sex were bold
Their Saviour to confess,
And gladly sacrific’d their fame,
And gloried in the Christian Name.

Verse 2
Who bare the title then,
Of high or low degree
Expos’d to grief and pain
And loss and infamy,
Were call’d the fiery test t’ abide,
And shame, and bonds, and death defied.

Verse 3
Tis not the name, but thing
But truth of Christian grace
Doth now the scandal bring
On the anointed race:
But who will sell their character
And Jesus love to life prefer?

Verse 4
Not many rich, and great,
And honourable now
Renounce their pride and state,
Or dare to Jesus bow;
Women of rank the cross disclaim,
And lose their souls, to save their fame.