A captive poor, despis’d, and bound (Acts 21:33, II Cor. 11:23-27)
His entry into Rome he makes, (Acts 28:16)
Yet greater far than victors crown’d, (II Tim. 4:7-8)
Whom Jesus for his servant takes! (Rom. 1:1, Gal. 1:10)
The plagues and scourges of mankind,
They forc’d the slaves their yoke to feel;
But Paul is come the world t’ unbind, (Acts 13:47)
And triumph o’re the hosts of hell. (Phil. 1:12-14, II Tim. 2:9, Eph. 6:12)
A captive, poor, despised, and bound
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘We came to Rome.’—[Acts 28,] v. 16." 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 450.
Publishing: Public Domain