Candid and honourable men,
Who would the injur’d right,
The law divine, the world unseen,
The things eternal slight;
As free from all religious zeal,
And superstitious cares,
As life, or death, as heaven, or hell
Were no concern of theirs.
Candid and honourable men
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law.’—[Acts 23,] v. 29." 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 406.
Publishing: Public Domain