Worn out with grief, and want, and pain

Worn out with grief, and want, and pain
The beggar dies, and lives again
Beyond conception blest,
By flaming ministers convey’d
To realms of joy, he rests his head
On his Redeemer’s breast.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The beggar died, and was carried by angels into Abraham’s bosom.'—[Luke 16,] v. 22.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 244.
Publishing: Public Domain