How near ye to the confines run
Of sin unpardonably great,
God’s finger who refuse to own
In men whom for their good ye hate!
How near ye to the confines run
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The Pharisees said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub.’—[Matt. 12,] v. 24.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 261.
Publishing: Public Domain