Canst thou, O Saul, believe

Verse 1
Canst thou, O Saul, believe,
While wet with Stephen’s blood,
Thou shalt thyself his lot receive,
A confessor of God?
Ston’d for thy Saviour’s sake
Whom now thou dost blaspheme,
Thou shalt at last his death partake,
And yield thy soul to Him.

Verse 2
Ye now are join’d in love,
In bonds of lasting peace:
Stephen and Saul are friends above,
Where pain and sorrow cease;
Rank’d with the saints in light
Who death by death subdued,
Who wash’d their robes, and made them white,
Thro’ the Redeemer’s blood.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.’—[Acts 7,] v. 58.” 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 218.
Publishing: Public Domain