We will not chide thy followers, Lord,
Distinct from us, who preach thy word,
Who devils in thy name expel,
And pluck poor sinners out of hell;
We dare not enviously deny
Their inward call to prophesy,
While faith is to their hearers given,
With God himself sent down from heaven.
We will not chide Thy followers, Lord
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Forbid him not.”—[Luke] ix. 50. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 188.
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