Still the world misrepresent

Still the world misrepresent
Us who on our Saviour wait,
Dangerous to government
Men whom all should dread and hate:
Rulers thus they put in fear,
Rouse the jealousy of power,
“Rebels are in Christians near,
“Lambs will all the wolves devour!”

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘These all do contrary to the decrees of Cesar.’—[Acts 17,] v. 7." 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 379.
Publishing: Public Domain