A sheep before the shearers brought,
A lamb whom cruel wolves devour,
Patient of wrong He threatens not,
Declaring his own glorious power,
Witness to that great truth he gives
Which costs the Confessor his blood,
By which his church forever lives,
One Spirit with th’ eternal God.
A sheep before the shearers brought
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God.’—[Luke 22,] v. 69.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 295.
Publishing: Public Domain