By all who neither love nor fear
Our God, the righteous are abhor’d,
As authors of their evils here,
They hate the servants of the Lord:
“Away with them,” the world exclaim,
“The Christians to the lions cast!”
The stream is troubled by the Lamb,
And must be so, while time shall last.
By all who neither love nor fear
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha shall stand on him this day.”—[II. Kings] vi. 31. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 195.
Publishing: Public Domain