Who always took his people’s part,
He interposes still,
Jesus, that made the human heart,
And turns it at his will:
Rulers, if he permits, oppress:
Or just compassion show,
As friends of equity and peace
They let his prisoners go.
Who always took His people’s part
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go.’—[Acts 17,] v. 9." 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 332.
Publishing: Public Domain