Whom God declares a perfect man,
Whom God disdains not to commend,
Is censur’d as a wretch prophane,
An atheist by his pious friend,
To shew, how changeable and blind
The kindest, wisest of mankind.
Whom God declares a perfect man
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Thou sayest, How doth God know?”—[Job] xxii. 13. 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 256.
Publishing: Public Domain