While faults in others I reprove,
If my own sins I cloak and love,
I may with self-importance swell,
And boast the bold reformer’s zeal,
But God denominates me aright
A blind, censorious hypocrite.
While faults in others I reprove
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye.”—[Matt.] vii. 5. 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 192.
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