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: “‘And he desired Philip, that he would come up, and sit with him.’—[Acts 8,] v. 31.” 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 227.
Scripture connections
Allusions
Verses this song echoes or alludes toLyrics
A casual unexpected guest
Who seems at first, may yet be sent,
To execute his Lord’s behest,
T’ interpret the Divine intent: (Acts 8:31)
Wondring we then the Master own,
The messenger with joy embrace, (Acts 8:39)
Design’d to make his Saviour known,
And fill our hearts with heavenly grace.