Scourged by the world’s oppobrious tongue

Verse 1
Scourg’d by the world’s opprobrious tongue,
Silent I bear the private wrong
With meek humility;
Revil’d, I answer not a word,
Assur’d, that Thou, my righteous Lord,
Wilt speak at last for me.

Verse 2
But when the honour of thy name
Thy cause and church my service claim,
Commanded to contend
I must th’ imputed crime disown,
Trample the foul accuser down,
And Thee, and thine defend.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘These are not drunken, as ye suppose &c.’—[Acts 2,] v. 15.” It 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 146.
Publishing: Public Domain