Highly favour’d them we call

Verse 1
Highly-favour’d them we call
Who the Apostle heard,
While an holy preaching Paul
The joyful news declar’d:
We, ev’n we may now obtain
The grace, as often as we will,
Read the words he utter’d then,
And hear him preaching still.

Verse 2
With divine instructions fraught
We his epistles see,
Learn the heavenly truth he taught,
And taste the liberty:
Oh would all the truth embrace,
The welcom news with us receive,
Justified by Jesus grace,
And sav’d, forever live!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘From Troas we came to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis; And from thence to Philippi: and we were in that city abiding certain days.’—[Acts 16,] v. 11, 12.” 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 314.
Publishing: Public Domain