But if the clam’rous tribe
Can nothing fairly prove,
Nor fear nor hope, nor threat nor bribe
Th’ impartial judge should move:
No upright ruler can
By violence oppress,
Or sacrifice an harmless man
Malicious priests to please.
But if the clamorous tribe
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man can deliver me unto them.’—[Acts 25,] v. 11." 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 422.
Publishing: Public Domain