Yet till Thy sovereign grace permit

Verse 1
Yet till thy sovereign grace permit,
They cannot touch one sacred hair:
And hence, my Lord, I labour yet,
Escap’d, unhurt, from every snare,
Rescued by military bands,
Or whomsoe’er thy love employs
I rest in thy almighty hands,
And underneath thy wings rejoice.

Verse 2
Thy servant here I still remain,
And testify to great and small
Whate’er thine oracles contain;
The Sum, the End, the Truth of all
Thee, Jesus, Thee I love to show,
Who hast the prophecies fulfil’d;
And in thy blood we all may know
The promises forever seal’d.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Having obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come.’—[Acts 26,] 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 429.
Publishing: Public Domain