The wicked still our Lord oppress,
Their utmost rage and malice try,
And when from mockeries they cease,
Him in his saints they crucify.
The wicked still our Lord oppress
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When they had mocked him, they led him out to crucify him.’—[Mark 15,] v. 20.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 66.
Publishing: Public Domain