What numbers call the Saviour Lord,
Spiritual guides in their own eyes.
Who slight his sanctifying word,
Nor see their holy calling’s prize!
“The perfect love they cannot gain,
“With sin’s remains they cannot part,
“Th’ inherent righteousness attain,
“The real purity of heart.[”]
What numbers call the Saviour Lord
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Are ye also yet without understanding?’—[Matt. 15,] v. 16.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 290.
Publishing: Public Domain