Acts 4:19: God bids, To all My name confess

God bids, To all My name confess,
And make My gospel known;
Man orders us to hold our peace,
And publish it to none:
But saved from earthly hopes and fears
Whate'er our elders say
We speak as Jesus' messengers,
And God, not man obey.

Yourselves must judge it meet and right
That we the thing should do
Well-pleasing in our Master's sight,
And God prefer to you:
Wherefore we exercise His will
As His first servants did,
And thus our ministry fulfil
Though all the world forbid.