So sacred if the symbol be
What the true living ark of God!
And O! How sore the penalty
For trampling on the covenant-blood
Familiariz’d by common sounds:
Wounds, wounds, and nothing else but wounds!
So sacred if the symbol be
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “God smote Uzzah.”—II. Sam. vi. 7. 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 165.
Publishing: Public Domain