The world will always love their own

Verse 1
The world will always love their own,
Who countenance their sin,
Or let them quietly sleep on,
Till Tophet takes them in:
But O! their choicest favourites are
The minister and priest,
The guides who prudently forbear
To interrupt their rest.

Verse 2
Who in the worldly spirit live,
And with the many go,
Favour and praise from man receive,
The good they seek below;
Not hated for religion’s sake,
In Satan’s arms secure
They slumber on; and thus they make
Their own damnation sure.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The world cannot hate you.’—[John 7,] v. 7." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 398.
Publishing: Public Domain