Bonds for ornaments we take
When our faith by bonds is tried:
Jesus bore them for our sake,
Bore, ennobled, sanctified:
Suffering for his cause alone,
Confessors of Jesus Name
Sing we into dangers thrown,
Glory in our Master’s shame.
Bonds for ornaments we take
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And laid hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.’—[Acts 5,] v. 18.” 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 187.
Publishing: Public Domain