Who after the first Christians tread

Verse 1
Who after the first Christians tread,
Will all the works of darkness shun,
“In secret have we nothing said,
“In secret have we nothing done,[”]
But walk as children of the light,
Unblameable in open sight.

Verse 2
Yet heathens still, by Satan taught,
Repeat the old exploded tale,
Crimes in our midnight meetings wrought,
Horrible mysteries of hell,
Reason’s reproach, and nature’s shame,
Fit only for themselves to name!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘There were many lights in the upper chamber where they were gathered together.’—[Acts 20,] v. 8." 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 368.
Publishing: Public Domain