But our High-priest above,
With his commission sent
The chosen vessel of his love
And alter’d Saul’s intent;
Before his hands he laid
On those who Christ ador’d,
Saul is himself stopt short, and made
The prisoner of the Lord.
But our High Priest above
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And here he hath authority from the chief priests, to bind all that call on thy name.’—[Acts 9,] v. 14.” 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 237.
Publishing: Public Domain