If all who holy things profane
Out of the Christian Church were driven,
Alas, how few would there remain
T’ adore the Majesty of heaven!
If all who holy things profane
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He drove them all out of the temple.’—[John 2,] v. 15." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 337.
Publishing: Public Domain