Witness to the truth He bears

Witness to the truth He bears
Which sets his prisoners free,
Simply to the world declares
His own Divinity:
This his good confession was,
That we his kingdom might confess,
All the virtue of his cross,
And all the strength of grace.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Jesus stood before the governor.’—Matt. 27, v. 11.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 418.
Publishing: Public Domain