Conscious the laws are on our side

Verse 1
Conscious the laws are on our side
(Not for the just but lawless made)
Our foes refuse the test t’ abide,
Or sue for Magisterial aid
While us they violently oppress
With an high hand of wickedness.

Verse 2
The legal way they wisely shun,
Which would our innocence display,
Make their unrighteous dealings known
Who hate the children of the day,
And break, to compass their design,
All statutes, human and Divine.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The law is open: let them implead one another.’—[Acts 19,] v. 38." 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 398.
Publishing: Public Domain