The forwardness of listning Jews
Condemns our backwardness to hear,
Who now the word of God refuse,
Reject the gospel-messenger,
With envious wrath exclaim aloud,
And fiercely chide the flocking croud.
The forwardness of listening Jews
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them: and he preached the word unto them.’—[Mark 2,] v. 2.” 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 453.
Publishing: Public Domain