The kinsmen of the Lord,
Whom first they disbeliev’d,
The proofs of Christ to life restor’d
With faith at length receiv’d:
By their example taught,
Deists, accept his grace,
And whom ye once a madman thought,
Your Lord and God confess.
The kinsmen of the Lord
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘With his brethren.’—[Acts 1,] v. 14.” 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 139.
Publishing: Public Domain