But those who most the caution need

Verse 1
But those who most the caution need,
Disdain to tremble or take heed,
Refuse themselves to prove;
They will not let their light be tried,
Or search, if that be perfect pride
Which they call—perfect love.

Verse 2
Then if their single eye is lost,
They their own high attainments boast,
Their purity and zeal,
In paths of wild delusion stray,
Mistaking for the heavenly ray
The flashy gleams of hell.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Take heed therefore, that the light which is in thee be not darkness.'—[Luke 11,] v. 35.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 132.
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