Happy prisoner of the Lord

Happy prisoner of the Lord,
Who his persecutors wins,
Souls redeems thro’ Jesus’ word,
Sinners looses from their sins!
Paid for all his toil and pain,
Minister of saving love,
Greater joy he cannot gain,
Till he finds his place above.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.’—[Acts 16,] v. 32.” 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 323.
Publishing: Public Domain