The martyrs’ blood, the church’s seed
Is by her banish’d servants spread,
And scatter’d far and wide;
Where’er the confessors are driven,
They testify the world forgiven
Thro’ Jesus crucified.
The martyrs’ blood, the church’s seed
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘In Iconium, they went both together into the synagogue.’—[Acts 14,] v. 1.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 359.
Publishing: Public Domain