Happy the man, redeem’d at last
From blind, mis-judging zeal,
Who dares for all his actions past
To zealous foes appeal:
“Able they are to testify
“Of him they hate and fear
“They cannot in their hearts deny
“The madman was sincere.[”]
Happy the man redeem’d at last
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘As also the high-priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders.’—[Acts 22,] v. 5." 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 394.
Publishing: Public Domain