The persecuted pair

The persecuted pair
How blest in banishment,
By Providential care
To an Apostle sent!
Into the arms of Mercy driven,
They find a plainer Way to heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He found a certain Jew &c.’—[Acts 18,] v. 2." 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 346.
Publishing: Public Domain