Their hate they can no further show

Verse 1
Their hate they can no farther show,
Constrain’d to let the preachers go,
Though thirsting for their blood:
What power obstructs the fierce career
Of men, who God disdain to fear?
They fear the multitude.

Verse 2
Elders, and priests, and rulers rage,
Against the Lord their powers engage;
His work the people own,
His truth and ministers embrace,
And glorify the God of grace
For all which he hath done.

Verse 3
The people praise a pardning God,
His miracles of healing show’d
On young and old confess;
They see his hand with joyful eyes,
And heal’d themselves thro’ Jesus rise
A cloud of witnesses!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “They let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people for all men glorified God &c.”—[Acts 4,] v. 21, 22. 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 177.
Publishing: Public Domain