Details
Hymnal / album
Acts (manuscript)
Publisher
Kingswood Books
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: “‘Suffer me to speak unto the people.’—[Acts 21,] v. 39." 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 407.
Scripture connections
Allusions
Verses this song echoes or alludes toLyrics
A servant of th’ incarnate God
Cannot faint beneath his load, (Acts 21:39)
Or sink, howe’er opprest,
The Spirit of faith, and hope, and love (Gal. 5:22-23)
Will bear him to the throne above,
And hide in Jesus breast. (Ps. 17:8, Ps. 57:1, Ps. 91:1-2, Matt. 23:37, Luke 13:34)