See the last brutish refuge see

Verse 1
See, the last brutish refuge see
Of baffled infidelity!
Inrag’d at our success,
Our words unable to gainsay,
The world their impotence betray,
And seek by force t’ oppress.

Verse 2
Shall women too the fight maintain,
Their sex forget, their honour stain,
By furious passions stirr’d,
Devoutly shew their blindful zeal,
Or think, whoe’er the servants kill,
Must greatly please the Lord?

Verse 3
Shall men of name and dignity
With basest rioters agree,
And head the multitude?
Or magistrates their power abuse,
As fools employ’d by wicked Jews
To persecute the good?

Verse 4
In Satan’s cause they all combine:
And then we fly, by God’s design,
To other sinners driven,
Who gladly our report believe,
And listning crouds the truth receive,
And know their sins forgiven.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men &c.’—[Acts 13,] v. 50.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 286.
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