So many influenced by one

Verse 1
So many influenc’d by one,
Whom all for their example take!
Their lives, (and not their lives alone)
Saved for their unknown Saviour’s sake!
Paul could not for their lives intreat,
And their indanger’d souls forget.

Verse 2
Surely he ask’d his Lord to spare
Their souls as at the point to die,
And Jesus in his servant’s59 prayer
Regarding his own Spirit’s cry,
Receiv’d them all into his fold,
And in his book of life inroll’d.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And we were all in the ship, two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.’—[Acts 27,] v. 37." 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 444.
Publishing: Public Domain