Happy Paul to bonds consigned

Verse 1
Happy Paul, to bonds consign’d!
What monarch is so free?
Thousands shall the blessing find
Of his captivity:
Kept (but Christ his Keeper is,
And serves by him his own design)
Kept, he rests in perfect peace
Within the arms Divine.

Verse 2
Jesus, full of truth and love,
Thy Godhead we adore,
Thee we trust the same to prove
Both now and evermore:
Let what will thy church befall,
It shall to thy great glory tend,
Magnify the Lord of all,
The saints eternal Friend.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He commanded him to be kept in Herod’s judgment-hall.’—[Acts 23,] v. 35." 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 407.
Publishing: Public Domain