Persecution’s progress see!
The worldly war begun
With contempt and mockery,
In cavilling goes on,
Then the chaf’d opposers fret;
Proceed the saints in bonds to lay;
Then the confessors they beat;
And then the martyrs slay!
Persecution’s progress see
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Others mocking said.’—[Acts 2,] v. 13.” It 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 144.
Publishing: Public Domain