Against the good and just

Verse 1
Against the good and just
If men false witness bear,
They may, and, call’d upon, they must
Their innocence declare:
The debt themselves they owe;
And must maintain their plea,
And urge, in sight of every foe,
Their own integrity.

Verse 2
A servant of the Lord
Insists with righteous zeal
Ye know, by publishing the word
That I have done no ill;
The messenger who hate
They hate me without cause:
I have not injur’d church or state,
I have not broke the laws.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘To the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou very well knowest.’—[Acts 25,] v. 10." 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 421.
Publishing: Public Domain