Strangers to Jesus and his grace,
The Scribes and Pharisees precise
In outward things religion place,
In triffles scrupulously nice,
Hate the pure wisdom from above,
And quite reject the law of love.
Strangers to Jesus and His grace
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?’—[Mark 7,] v. 5.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 3.
Publishing: Public Domain