No matter what—if God be here,
And Jesus with his church abide;
Ye cannot need the minister
Whose Lord and Master is your Guide:
But if in man ye put your trust
Or idols of the creatures make,
Ye force the jealous God and just
His faithless people to forsake.
No matter what—if God be here
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘As for this Moses, we know not what is become of him.’—[Acts 7,] v. 40.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 312.
Publishing: Public Domain