A faithful brother now

Verse 1
A faithful brother now
The persecuting Saul,
Doth to the cross of Jesus bow,
And at his footstool fall:
He first obtains his sight,
And then his pardon seal’d,
Wash’d in the pure baptismal rite,
With Jesus Spirit fill’d.

Verse 2
His sight he first receives:
And thus the Will Divine
Sometimes to humbled sinners gives
The grace without the sign:
Baptiz’d, he then obeys,
And shews it right and fit
That all who have obtain’d the grace,
Should to the sign submit.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Brother Saul, the Lord hath sent me &c.’—[Acts 9,] v. 17, 18.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 328. Verse 2 was published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 238.
Publishing: Public Domain