Worldly consolations see!
Mixt with gall the wine they give!
But who dies the death for me,
Will not the support receive;
Will not lose one moment’s pain;
Bears the full unlessen’d load,
Bears the rage of fiends and men,
Bears the utmost wrath of God.
Worldly consolations see!
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They gave him vinegar to drink, mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.’—[Matt. 27,] v. 34.” 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 427.
Publishing: Public Domain