Loos’d from the ties of flesh and blood

Verse 1
Loos’d from the ties of flesh and blood,
Jesus, in all the things of God
Thy messenger should be,
Deaf to the voice of nature’s now,
To Thee for his instructions bow,
And singly look to Thee.

Verse 2
Harshly Thou dost thy mother treat,
Least pious parents should forget
Their sons are not their own,
Or plead a right to interfere
In matters where thy minister
Is taught of God alone.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.’—John 2, v. 4." 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 218.
Publishing: Public Domain