Tremendous change! the Reverend Guide
Of souls doth Jesus murtherers head!
And oft his successors, allied
With hell, the band of ruffians lead:
Their Lord they barter and betray,
The foremost of his foes appear,
Seize, and insult him every day
And slaughter in his members here.
Tremendous change! the Reverend Guide
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Which was guide to them who took Jesus.’—[Acts 1,] v. 16.” 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 139.
Publishing: Public Domain