Talkers of a grace unknown

Talkers of a grace unknown
Only imitate the fiend,
They proclaim the Holy One,
They the Son of God commend:
Devils still may Jesus praise:
We who hear and do his word,
Followers after holiness
We shall find it with our Lord.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I know thee who thou art; the holy one of God.'—[Luke 4,] v. 34.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 90.
Publishing: Public Domain