Not speak at all in Jesus name?
For this alone we live,
The Friend of sinners to proclaim,
Who would the worst forgive:
From house to house we still must teach
His love, whate’er betide,
In streets, highways, and desarts preach
Jehovah crucified.
Not speak at all in Jesus’ name?
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They commanded them not to speak at all, nor teach in the name of Jesus.’—[Acts 4,] v. 18.” 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 176.
Publishing: Public Domain