By their Saviour’s Spirit led

By their Saviour’s Spirit led
And fill’d with faith unfeign’d,
Saints themselves sometimes may need
To be by man restrain’d:
Pastors who their lives expose
Thro’ hasty zeal, the flock should hold,
Screen from their outragious foes,
And hide them in the fold.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When Paul would have entred in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not.’—[Acts 19,] v. 30." 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 396.
Publishing: Public Domain