Who dares the gospel truth blaspheme

Verse 1
Who dares the gospel-truth blaspheme
Self-harden’d in his lost estate,
What hope alas, remains for him,
A seal’d, abandon’d reprobate!
Who mock th’ inspiring Spirit’s grace,
Deride the sense of pardon’d sin,
They challenge hell as their own place,
They force the pit to take them in.

Verse 2
Jesus persisting to deny
While all his doctrines they gainsay,
Them, only them he passes by,
And takes his slighted word away:
His pearls we then no more expose
To swine, who tread them in the mire,
But turning from our Saviour’s foes,
We leave them in their sins t’ expire.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When they opposed themselves and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.’—[Acts 18,] v. 6." This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 383. Verse 1 was 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 347.
Publishing: Public Domain