Wrestling on for faith’s increase,
Striving to perform his will,
Labouring after holiness,
Straining up perfection’s hill,
Let me thus ’till death be found;
Dying thus I shall not die,
But with brighter glory crown’d,
Reign with Christ above the sky.
Wrestling on for faith’s increase
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “So an entrance shall be ministred unto you abundantly, into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ.”—[2 Pet.] i. 11. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 191.
Publishing: Public Domain