The world fulfil the Saviour’s word,
A winebibber they call’d their Lord;
His servants now they drunkards name:
And all his saints the honour claim,
Fill’d by his Spirit from above,
With power, sobriety, and love.
The world fulfil the Saviour’s word
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘These men are full of new wine.’—[Acts 2,] v. 13.” It 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 144.
Publishing: Public Domain