To the multitude inrag’d
Their way at first we give;
When their fury is assuag’d
They may the truth receive,
Calm to reason’s voice attend,
No farther with the craftsmen go,
Leave them to their trusty friend,
And sure allies below.
To the multitude enraged
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When the town-clerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not &c.’—[Acts 19,] v. 35." 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 363.
Publishing: Public Domain