Festivals observed to God

Festivals observ’d to God
We by Apostles see:
Let who will the deed explode,
We own th’ authority;
Mysteries of redeeming Love
We celebrate, like Paul the Blest,
Till we keep with saints above
The everlasting feast.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I must keep this feast in Jerusalem.’—[Acts 18,] v. 21." 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 352.
Publishing: Public Domain