Introduction
Words: Charles Wesley, Short Hymns (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762), numbers 1445 & 1446.
Music: Weld Methodist Hymn and Tune Book (Toronto, Canada: Methodist Book & Publishing House, 1894), number 794 (🔊 
).
Zechariah 13:8It shall come to pass, that in all the land,
saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
Words: Charles Wesley, Short Hymns (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762), numbers 1445 & 1446.
Music: Weld Methodist Hymn and Tune Book (Toronto, Canada: Methodist Book & Publishing House, 1894), number 794 (🔊 ).
Dreadful, pride chastising word
Of surest prophecy!
Two in three that call Thee Lord,
Shall be cut off and die.
Who should then of grace presume?
Father, in Thine hands I am,
Save me from th’apostate’s doom,
I ask in Jesu’s name.
Need I then, my God, despair
Thy favor to retain?
Lost if two in three there are,
The third shall still remain;
Of the third distinguished part,
That I may live forever one,
Stamp Thine image on my heart,
And join me to Thy Son.