From the man, outrageous spite
To judgment false proceeds,
Equity pronounces right
Of persons from their deeds:
They appearances look thro’
Who darkness hate and light approve,
They believe the Saviour true
Who truth and goodness love.
From the man, outrageous spite
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Some said, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath-day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner, do such miracles?’—[John 9,] v. 16." 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 444.
Publishing: Public Domain