Lord, appear; the wrongs redress
Unto thy people done,
Let the world no more oppress
Whom thou hast call’d thine own
Set thine injur’d brethren free
From Satan’s dire, despotic sway,
Now destroy his tyranny,
And sin forever slay.
Lord appear, the wrongs redress
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian.’—[Acts 7,] v. 24.” 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 208.
Publishing: Public Domain