The sufferers who His name confess

The sufferers who his name confess
God amply recompenses here:
As chosen vessels of his grace
He calls them forth to minister
That Spirit which from Jesus flows,
And uses them to save their foes.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He fell down before Paul and Silas.’—[Acts 16,] v. 29.” 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 321.
Publishing: Public Domain