Who beat thy confessors and wound

Verse 1
Who beat thy confessors and wound
With wanton cruelty and scorn,
Saviour, Thou canst alarm, confound,
Their fierceness to thy glory turn,
Or by the servile fear of man
Our most outragious foes restrain.

Verse 2
With that infernal murtherer fill’d,
The men who now thy people see
As sheep appointed to be kill’d,
Damp’d by a secret look from Thee
Shall dread the sovereign ruler’s frown,
And lay their slaughtering-weapons down.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They feared, when they heard that they were Romans.’—[Acts 16,] v. 38.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 377.
Publishing: Public Domain