Ye servants of God, your Master proclaim

Ye servants of God, your Master proclaim. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788).  First published in Hymns for Times of Trouble and Persecution (1744) in six 4-line stanzas, the first of four hymns ‘to be sung in a Tumult’. It was not included in John Wesley’s A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780) but it appeared in the 1831 edition with Supplement with stanzas 2 and 3 omitted and a stanza from another hymn added. Several different selections of stanzas appeared in subsequent Methodist and non-Methodist hymnbooks, but since the early 20th century its use has been restricted to stanzas 1, 4, 5 and 6 of the following original text: Ye Servants of God,  Your Master...