Servants of Christ the witness vain
Reject, the praise that comes from man:
And will their Apostolic zeal
Accept the praise that comes from hell?
Servants of Christ the witness vain
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Paul being grieved, turned and said to the spirit &c.’—[Acts 16,] v. 18.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 373.
Publishing: Public Domain