Songwriters: Charles Wesley

Bible Verses: I Peter, I Peter 2, I Peter 2:13-14

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “To the Worshipful the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Bristol.” This hymn was included in a manuscript titled “MS Festivals.” This manuscript is held by the Methodist Archive and Research Centre of the John Rylands Library at The University of Manchester (accession number DDCW 6/71). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 3 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1992), page 105.

Publishing: Public Domain