Details
Hymnal / album
Acts (manuscript)
Publisher
Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office
Copyright
Public Domain (Disclaimer: This is not legal advice. The publication year, if correct, suggests that this work may be in public domain in the U.S..)
Notes
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.
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A bigot obstinately wrong,
Yet certain he is right,
May confident continue long
’Gainst Jesus Christ to fight; (Acts 26:9)
May persecute the witnesses
With blind pernicious zeal, (Acts 9:1-2, Acts 22:3-4, Gal. 1:13-14)
And, while he thinks his God to please, (John 16:2)
Rejoice the fiends in hell.