Do ye not still, ye ruling men

Verse 1
Do ye not still, ye ruling men,
Permit that open vice should reign,
And courtly wickedness?
Yet while the evil is allow’d,
Ye turn your zeal against the good,
And all its friends oppress.

Verse 2
Ye now into our deeds inquire,
Not thro’ a laudable desire
To praise and imitate,
But matter of offence to find,
(With sin, the world, and Satan join’d,)
And blast the good ye hate.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man &c.’—[Acts 4,] v. 9.” 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 171.
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