Silent long the Prisoner stood

Silent long the Prisoner stood,
But not thro’ guilty fear;
Bold at last the Son of God
Asserts his character,
Makes to God his just appeal
Who every heart will soon display,
Cites his judge the truth to feel
At that tremendous day.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.’—[Mark 14,] v. 62.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 81.
Publishing: Public Domain