Wounded and bruised and drenched in blood

Verse 1
Wounded, and bruis’d, and drench’d in blood,
Fit witness for a martyr’d God,
He stems the popu’lar tide,
And while the Saviour he declares,
The marks he in his body bears
Of Jesus crucified.

Verse 2
Happy who thus their Lord confess!
Jesus shall arm them with his grace,
His witnesses inspire,
On them the glorious Spirit shall rest,
With love divine expand their breast
And touch their lips with fire.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Paul beckned with his hand unto the people: and when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying.’—[Acts 21,] v. 40." 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 392.
Publishing: Public Domain