Who Jesus to the world confess

Verse 1
Who Jesus to the world confess
And preach before his foes,
Our labour doth our strength increase,
Our grace by using grows;
Our talents more and more abound,
Who Christ proclaim abroad,
And prove, (his haters to confound,)
This is th’ eternal God!

Verse 2
With every gospel-minister,
Still, Lord, vouchsafe to be,
And help us boldly to declare
Thy sovereign Deity,
Proofs incontestible to bring
From thy own Spirit’s power
That Thee our Prophet, Priest, and King
Both earth and heaven adore.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews, proving that this is very Christ.’—[Acts 9,] v. 22.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 329-30. Verse 1 was 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 239.
Publishing: Public Domain