Paul for his companions pays

Verse 1
Paul for his companions pays
At Jesus’s expense,
In the heathens eyes displays
His Lord’s omnipotence,
Makes it on their bodies known,
That then their languid souls may prove
Health restor’d thro’ Christ alone,
And bless his pardning love.

Verse 2
Debtor both to Greek and Jew
Did he not Christ proclaim,
Debtor to barbarians too,
He preach’d where’er he came;
(Conscious of his Master’s mind
When to remotest corners driven)
Preach’d the Saviour of mankind,
The Peace of earth and heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘So when this was done, others also which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed.’—[Acts 28,] v. 9." 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 448.
Publishing: Public Domain