Let teachers false their sentence close

Let teachers false their sentence close
With dire anathemas and woes,
Let the fierce partizans of Rome
To death and sure damnation doom;
Th’ Apostles of the Lamb, we see,
With love confirm their mild decree:
Love is the truth’s authentic seal,
And bids obedient souls farewell.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘From which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.’—[Acts 15,] 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 308.
Publishing: Public Domain