Easy to be intreated, mild
And gentle toward his fiercest foes,
Placable as a little child,
A Christian no resentment knows;
He cannot injuries retain,
As one of a vindictive mind,
But loves the authors of his pain,
And meekly yields to all mankind.
Easy to be intreated, mild
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city &c.’—[Acts 16,] v. 39.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 377.
Publishing: Public Domain