Where is the sect or party free
From nature’s jealous bigottry?
Who blame the bitter zeal of Rome
Their brethren to destruction doom:
Ev’n those who Christ in measure know,
The envious imperfection show,
And cooly praise, or loud condemn
The men that follow not with them.
Where is the sect or party free
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘We forbad him, because he followeth not with us.'—[Luke 9,] v. 49.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 114.
Publishing: Public Domain