The place apostates know

The place apostates know,
And never can forget,
Where Jesus and his church below
In solemn worship meet:
Yet Him in vain they claim
Who to his foes desert:
Disciples, confessors[1] in name,
But traitors false in heart.

[1] Wesley added the footnote: “Judas signifies Confessor.”

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And Judas also which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples.’—[John 18,] v. 2." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 65.
Publishing: Public Domain