The world exult to see pursued
Their counsel to destroy the good,
And God permits them to oppress,
And curses with their own success:
When priests against his church conspire,
Accomplishing the fiend’s desire,
Their triumph doth their fall portend,
Their joys in endless sorrows end.
The world exult to see pursued
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Now Caiaphas was he which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.’—[John 18,] v. 14." 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 70.
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