Disturbers of the public peace

Disturbers of the public peace
We do indeed molest
Poor souls who dwell in sinful ease,
And will not let them rest:
Truths which the world could never bear,
We openly avow,
Pardon in Jesus blood declare—
And all may feel it now!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘These men do exceedingly trouble our city; And teach &c.’—[Acts 16,] v. 20, 21.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 317.
Publishing: Public Domain