Friend, how dar’st thou enter in,
And unprepar’d intrude,
Show thyself, a slave of sin
Among the saints of God?
Hand and foot th’ intruder bind
Thro’ guilt impenitently dumb,
Cast him out to woes consign’d,
And hell’s eternal gloom.
Friend, bow darest thou enter in
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding-garment &c.’—[Matt. 22,] v. 12, 13.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 351.
Publishing: Public Domain