What profit your religious shews,
Your empty form of godliness?
Externals may on man impose
But cannot a pure Spirit please;
Fit worship for an holy God,
As fat of lambs, and bullocks’ blood!
What profit your religious shews
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me, saith the Lord? I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, &c.”—[Isa.] i. 11. 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 370.
Publishing: Public Domain