Should we not young beginners spare

Should we not young beginners spare,
The burthens which they cannot bear,
The legal yoke remove?
The Sovereign Unity Divine
No other worship doth injoin
Than pure and simple love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘My sentence is, that we trouble not them which from among the Gentiles are turned to God.’—[Acts 15,] v. 19.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 368.
Publishing: Public Domain