And let the railing world exclaim

And let the railing world exclaim:
I wish them all to follow Thee:
I glory in the sacred shame
Pour’d by their blindfold rage on me:
Thy poor revil’d disciple I
As such rejoice to live and die.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple.’—[John 9,] v. 28." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 448.
Publishing: Public Domain