The carnal Jews misunderstood

Verse 1
The carnal Jews misunderstood
The lively oracles of God,
No promise spiritual they saw
Beneath the shadows of the law,
But resting in the literal word
Renounc’d the Truth with Christ our Lord.

Verse 2
The modern Jews who bear his name,
In judgment and mistake the same,
No hope of immortality
In Moses or the prophets see,
No Spirit now to sinners given,
No inward Christ, or present heaven.

Verse 3
They still a God unknown adore
Strangers to faith’s almighty power,
To Christ the Power of God in man,
Who only can his word explain,
And write it on their inward parts,
And breathe the sense into their hearts.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures neither the power of God?’—[Mark 12,] v. 24.” 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 54.
Publishing: Public Domain