Peter with himself compare!
Lately he his Lord foreswore;
Now at man’s unrighteous bar
Stands th’ undaunted confessor,
Bold in presence of his foes,
Peter out of weakness strong,
Fill’d with faith’s assurance, shows,
Power doth all to God belong!
Peter with himself compare!
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then Peter filled with the holy Ghost, said unto them.’—[Acts 4,] v. 8.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 293.
Publishing: Public Domain