Bound by the prophetic word,
And before rulers brought,
Paul must manifest his Lord
Who Jews and Heathens bought;
Preach redemption in his blood,
And spread the tidings far and wide,
Witness for a dying God,
A Saviour crucified.
Bound by the prophetic word
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They presented Paul before the Governor.’—[Acts 23,] v. 33." 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 416.
Publishing: Public Domain