According to your law indeed
Ye with the messengers proceed
Who Jesus testify,
Your justice ye by facts declare,
The men ye first in pieces tear
And then—proceed to try.
According to your law indeed
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.’—[Acts 24,] 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 409.
Publishing: Public Domain