He who furious inquisition
After the disciples made,
Happier now in his condition
Bound, yet not of death afraid,
Saul, a tool of persecution,
Now the persecuted Paul,
Fills the zealots with confusion
Owns, and preaches Christ to all.
He who furious inquisition
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I persecuted this way, binding both men and women.’—[Acts 22,] v. 4." 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 393.
Publishing: Public Domain