Earth and hell thy law opposes,
Cannot the commandment bear;
Speaking ’gainst thy servant Moses,
Thee to contradict they dare:
O omnipotent Redeemer,
End their antinomian lore,
Still the undisguised blasphemer,
Let him vex thy flock no more.
Earth and hell Thy law opposes
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Wherefore were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses.”—[Num.] xii. 8. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 72.
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