Thy servants, Lord, in every age
Th’ afflictions of the gospel share,
And midst the persecutors rage,
Thy name among the Gentiles bear,
Answer their ministerial call,
All-conquering by enduring all.
Thy servants, Lord, in every age
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When they had laid many stripes on them, they cast them into prison.’—[Acts 16,] v. 23.” 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 318.
Publishing: Public Domain