Songwriters: Charles Wesley

Bible Verses: Acts, Acts 26, Acts 26:9

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.’—[Acts 26,] v. 9." 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 425.

Publishing: Public Domain