The crowd in every age and place

The croud in every age and place
Are readiest Jesus to confess:
But ah, how soon are they remov’d
Who testify a faith unprov’d!
His confessors hosanna cry
To day; to morrow Crucify!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The multitude said, This is Jesus the Prophet.’—[Matt. 21,] v. 11.” 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 340.
Publishing: Public Domain