Still we see our Lord below
Mock’d by hypocrites profane,
Mock’d with forms and empty show,
Mock’d with acts of worship vain:
Twice a week they bow the knee,
Zealous in religion’s cause;
Then away to Calvary!
Then they nail him to his cross!
Still we see on our Lord below
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘After they had mocked him, they led him away to crucify him.’—[Matt. 27,] v. 31.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 426.
Publishing: Public Domain