Th’ insidious foes of truth become
Oft-times thro’ pride and envy dumb;
The good they would reprove
They dare not openly decry;
Nor dare they speak to justify
The men they will not love.
The’ insidious foes of truth become
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They held their peace.’—[Mark 3,] v. 4.” 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 463.
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