Thro’ fear of feeble man,
Thro’ want of social love,
Lord, I have made thy precept vain,
Neglecting to reprove;
Th’ offender in mine eye
I suffer’d to go on,
A thousand sins in him pass’d by,
And made them all my own.
Through fear of feeble man
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart, thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.”—Lev. xix. 17. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 63.
Publishing: Public Domain