W[esley] himself and friends betrays,
By his good sense forsook,
While suddenly his hands he lays
On the hot head of C[oke]:
Yet we at least shoud spare the weak,
His weak Co-evals We,
Nor blame an hoary Schismatic,
A Saint of Eighty-three!
Wesley himself and friends betrays
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “Epigram.” This hymn appears in the manuscript “MS Ordinations.” 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 1977/157, in the John Wesley papers JW V.III). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 3 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1992), page 81.
Publishing: Public Domain