Men should patiently endure

Men should patiently endure,
Leave their God to act for them:
Bars and chains cannot secure
Whom He willeth to redeem:
Christ, whose might invincible
Burst the prison of the grave,
Christ, who shuts and opens hell,
Can he not from dungeons save?

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth.’—[Acts 5,] v. 19.” 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 187.
Publishing: Public Domain