Who dares religion’s power deny,
While for the forms he pleads,
The men who on his word rely
To sure destruction leads:
The guide who will not Jesus know,
Is Satan’s messenger,
Damns his own soul to endless woe,
And all the souls that hear.
Who dares religion’s power deny
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.’—[Matt. 15,] v. 14.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 289.
Publishing: Public Domain