Boasters of a religious show

Verse 1
Boasters of a religious show,
Who the unlearned poor disdain,
Howe’er the literal law ye know,
Its curse doth still on you remain,
Who have not the whole law fulfill’d,
It speaks your condemnation seal’d.

Verse 2
The poor, the death-devoted croud
Their Lord with humble faith receive,
They gladly know their pardning God,
Freed from the legal curse they live,
The Spirit of pure obedience prove,
And all the law fulfill’d in love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘This people who knoweth not the law are cursed.’—[John 7,] v. 49." 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 412.
Publishing: Public Domain