We must speak on, forbid by all

Verse 1
We must speak on, forbid by all,
And preach salvation in this name,
By Jesus’ own command we call,
On every soul, Behold the Lamb!
We teach, according to his will,
The faithful, acceptable word,
And long the universe to fill
With the pure doctrine of our Lord.

Verse 2
By countless acts of wickedness
The Prince of life ye seiz’d, and slew
The Man from heaven who bought our peace,
We surely charge his death on you:
Ye murtherers of incarnate God,
Ye speak the thing by us design’d,
We mean to bring his sprinkled blood
On you, ourselves, and all mankind.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Did we not straitly command you, that you should not teach in this name? and behold, ye have filled &c.’—[Acts 5,] v. 28.” 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 190.
Publishing: Public Domain