The truth which all his martyrs made,
And join’d them to his host on high,
Their Captain and almighty Head
He first in death should testify:
He dies, in proof that God was born,
Jehovah’s Son, Jehovah’s Heir,
That Christ shall in the clouds return,
And all mankind adore him there.
The truth which all his martyrs made
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then said they all, Art thou then the Son of God? And he said unto them, Ye say that I am.'—[Luke 22,] v. 70.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 199.
Publishing: Public Domain