Escaped from the tempestuous sea

Escap’d from the tempestuous sea
Who dared in God confide,
By dangers new his faith must be,
By fresh temptations tried:
The viper fasten’d on his hand
And shook into the flame
Shall shew, that both by sea and land
His Saviour is the same.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘There came a viper out of the fire, and fastened on his hand.’—[Acts 28,] v. 3." 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 446.
Publishing: Public Domain