We hear a Romish Founder say
“Cast—not your sins, but—shoes away[”]:
Another bids, in whining note,
“Strip off the buttons from thy coat”:
A Third adorns the Sisters shapes
With jackets, and their head with Caps:
But the supreme Reformer cries
“Your Wrists, and Elbows circumcise!”
We hear a Romish Founder say, cast not your sins, but shoes, away, another bids
Hymnal/Album: This hymn appears in the manuscript “MS Ordinations.” 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 1977/157, in the John Wesley papers JW V.III). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 3 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1992), page 92.
Publishing: Public Domain