Happy the highly-favour’d man
Who wears thine honourable chain,
To inward liberty restor’d!
Jesus, with thee in Spirit join’d,
He triumphs, for thy cause confin’d,
The joyful prisoner of the Lord:
Who thy captivity partake,
And calmly suffer for thy sake,
Our bonds are sanctified by thine:
And when we have endur’d with Thee
Thy death of pain and infamy,
We shall in all thy glories shine.
Happy the highly favoured man
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then the band, and the captain, and the officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him.’—John 18, v. 12." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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 70.
Publishing: Public Domain