What Pharisees can do
Is but the outward part:
Religion undefil’d and true
Is seated in the heart:
His kingdom from above,
His nature we partake,
When God appeas’d in Christ we love,
And all men for his sake.
What Pharisees can do
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Ye pass over judgment, and the love of God.’—[Luke 11,] v. 42.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 133.
Publishing: Public Domain