In the council of the sky
It predetermin’d was:
Paul is chose to testify
Of Him that stain’d the cross;
God, whatever man intends,
Hath work at Rome which must be done:
Thither he his labourer sends
To serve his will alone.
In the council of the sky
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘It was determined that we should sail into Italy.’—[Acts 27,] v. 1." 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 433.
Publishing: Public Domain