For this let fiery zealots seize,
(If Thou the ruffians hands unbind:)
Me in the courts of holiness,
The temple’s foe, they still may find:
Assur’d that Thou art always near,
I come to suffer all thy will,
By love Divine forbid to fear
The men who can this body kill.
For this let fiery zealots take
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘For these things the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.’—[Acts 26,] 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 429.
Publishing: Public Domain