Tho’ crouds may uncommission’d run
T’ usurp the priestly character,
Th’ Apostles successors alone
The Christian passover prepare:
But we thro’ grace our sins remove,
Purge out the old unleaven’d bread,
And then by humble faith and love
On Jesus in our hearts we feed.
Though crowds may uncommission’d run
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayst eat the passover?’—[Mark 14,] v. 12.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 63.
Publishing: Public Domain