Guiltless the saint by all declared

Verse 1
Guiltless the saint by all declar’d;
But short and useless their regard,
Their testimony vain;
Their favor is a broken reed,
And tells us, at our greatest need
There is no help in man.

Verse 2
Ye sufferers who your Lord confess,
The world perhaps in your distress
Your innocence may own;
But let your mind on Christ be stay’d,
And hope for no effectual aid
Except from Christ alone.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man [might] have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Cesar.’—[Acts 26,] v. 32." 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 429.
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