God bids, To all My name confess

Verse 1
God bids, To all my name confess,
And make my gospel known,
Man orders us to hold our peace,
And publish it to none:
But sav’d from earthly hopes and fears
Whate’er our elders say,
We speak as Jesus’ messengers,
And God, not man, obey.

Verse 2
Yourselves must judge it meet and right
That we the thing should do
Well-pleasing in our Master’s sight,
And God prefer to you:
Wherefore we execute his will,
As his first servants did,
And thus our ministry fulfil,
Though all the world forbid.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God, to heathen unto you more than unto God, judge ye.”—[Acts 4,] v. 19. 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 176.
Publishing: Public Domain