All parties furiously contend

Verse 1
All parties furiously contend
With the great Babylon of Rome,
Dispute, and wrangle without end,
“To us for true religion come,”
Christ among them they bid us seek,
As every sect were Catholic.

Verse 2
But shall we their disciples be
Who would Immensity confine?
We need not wander far to see
The universal Lightning shine:
Look, sinner, look, where’er thou art,
For Christ’s appearing—in thy heart.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They shall say to you, See here, or see there: go not after them, nor follow them. For as the lightning &c.'—[Luke 17,] v. 23, 24.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 164.
Publishing: Public Domain