Lyrics: Of whom should His apostles speak

Of whom should His apostles speak

Of whom should his Apostles speak
But Him who fills their hearts and mind,
Who sends them forth, the lost to seek,
To call, and gather all mankind?
And all entrusted with his word,
Forbid by men will God obey:
We must proclaim our dying Lord,
Though pain and death obstruct the way.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When they had called the Apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus.’—[Acts 5,] v. 40.” 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 195.

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