Bold he sets his stedfast face,
Nor fears the face of man,
Safe within a wall of brass
And free from every stain,
Answering in his own defence
He makes the injur’d truth appear,
Open is his countenance,
And as his conscience clear.
Bold he sets his steadfast face
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And Paul earnestly beholding the council, said &c.’—[Acts 23,] v. 1." 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 400.
Publishing: Public Domain