Philip the Lord our Righteousness

Philip the Lord our Righteousness
Proclaims, and preaches, in the place
Where Christ had preach’d before;
Heathens to zealous Jews prefers:
And all the Saviour’s messengers
Evangelize the poor.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.’—[Acts 8,] v. 5.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 317.
Publishing: Public Domain