And let the world for Jesus sake
His confessors oppress,
For vile, seditious ruffians take,
And foes to public peace:
Not of the dark Egyptian race,
But Israelites indeed,
We still the great Apostle trace,
As he pursued our Head.
And let the world for Jesus sake
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Art not thou that Egyptian who madest an uproar, and leddest out &c.’—[Acts 21,] v. 38." 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 407.
Publishing: Public Domain