Not for my fault, or folly’s sake

Not for my fault, or folly’s sake,
The name, or mode, or form I take,
But for true holiness,
Let me be wrong’d, revil’d, abhor’d,
And thee my sanctifying Lord
In life and death confess.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”—[Matt.] v. 10. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). 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 164.
Publishing: Public Domain