Where is now the feeble reed

Verse 1
Where is now the feeble reed
Shaken by a damsel’s breath?
Man he can no longer dread,
Pain, imprisonment, and death;
Fill’d with virtue from his Lord,
With the Spirit of faith and power,
Peter stands, by grace restor’d,
Stands a rock, and shakes25 no more!

Verse 2
Reeds may still, if Thou ordain,
Into rocks and pillars rise:
Me, the weakest child of man
Jesus, strengthen from the skies;
Fill me with that Spirit of grace:
Witness for a dying God,
Then I shall the truth confess,
Dare to seal it with my blood.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They saw the boldness of Peter &c.’—[Acts 4,] v. 13.” 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 173.
Publishing: Public Domain