Who after Paul and Jesus tread

Verse 1
Who after Paul and Jesus tread,
We duly to the temple go,
Thither by his own Spirit led,
We our unfeign’d devotion show:
The house we honour, not profane,
Our solemn prayers and vows repeat,
Communion with the saints maintain,
And then the King of saints we meet.

Verse 2
Our foes, the superstitious croud,
Who to the brick and mortar cleave,
The church, the church, who roar so loud,
To us both house and altar leave:
They seldom come, or not at all,
The prayers neglect, and slight the word,
Yet us the Separatists they call,
Themselves the temple of the Lord!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I went up to Jerusalem to worship &c.’—[Acts 24,] v. 11, 12." This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 410.
Publishing: Public Domain