Teach me the prophets smooth to shun
Who wrap their words in softest love,
But lead their fond disciples down
A spacious way to joys above:
O may I still my station keep,
Hold fast thy word, and cross, and name,
Beware the cloathing of the sheep,
Beware the language of The Lamb!
Teach me the prophets smooth to shun
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Beware of false prophets.”—[Matt.] vii. 15. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). 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 202.
Publishing: Public Domain