The foes of truth, by malice joined

The foes of truth, by malice join’d,
Soon into different factions run;
No lasting bonds the wicked find;
Truth, only truth continues one,
But error leads a thousand ways,
And drops them in the endless maze.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees.’—[Acts 23,] v. 7." This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 402.
Publishing: Public Domain