When ministers make known

Verse 1
When ministers make known
What God by them hath done,
We who pray’d for their success,
Thankful for our answer’d prayer,
Testify his faithfulness,
All his gracious works declare.

Verse 2
With joy we now approve
The truth of Jesus love:
God, the universal God
He the door hath open’d wide,
Faith on sinners poor bestow’d,
Wash’d them in his bleeding side.

Verse 3
Purg’d from the stains of sin
By faith they entred in,
Purchas’d and redeem’d of old
Added to the chosen race,
Now receiv’d into the fold
Heathens sing their Saviour’s praise.

Verse 4
With them we lift our voice,
Partakers of their joys,
Conscious of the blood applied,
Freely all thro’ faith forgiven:
Faith renews the justified,
Faith unfolds the gates of heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.’—[Acts 14,] v. 27.” 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 294.
Publishing: Public Domain