Verse 1
See the first fatal step to part
Men of one soul, and of one heart!
Undue respect of man,
Pride imperceptible steals in,
Begets the discontented sin,
And mars the perfect plan.

Verse 2
Where are humility and peace?
The root of envious bitterness
Pride, only pride, could prove:
Envy unkind suspicion wakes,
Suspicion all the murmurs makes,
And poisons social love.

Verse 3
Who can, O God, thy counsels tell!
Thy judgments are unsearchable!
The pure and perfect way,
Religion undefil’d and true
Scarcely appear’d to mortal view,
And vanish’d in a day!

Verse 4
But may we not expect to see
The genuine pristine piety
On this our earth restor’d;
The heavenly life again made known,
The Christians all in Spirit one,
One Spirit with their Lord?

Verse 5
Surely Thou wilt from heaven descend,
The dark apostacy to end,
And re-collect thine own:
These eyes our beauteous King shall view,
Jesus creating all things new
On his millennial throne!

Verse 6
Then shall thy church in Thee abide,
Renew’d, and wholly sanctified,
And pure as those above;
No power shall then impair our peace,
Or break the bond of perfectness,
The unity of love.