O may I never dare receive
From blind simplicity
The reverence which poor worms would give
To man, instead of thee!
O may I still their praise reject
Who hang upon my word,
Refuse to lead th’ implicit sect,
And send them to their Lord!
O may I never dare receive
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Be not ye called, Rabbi.”—[Matt.] xxiii. 8. 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 359.
Publishing: Public Domain