Who knowingly the truth oppose

Verse 1
Who knowingly the truth oppose,
More distant from salvation stand,
More unconvincible than those,
Blind instruments of their command,
That serve their execrable will,
And all their bloody mind fulfil.

Verse 2
The first effects of dying Love
Wrought on the Pagan soldiers see!
Their hearts with conscious awe approve,
And own the suffering Deity,
To Jews a blest example give,
And bid the heathen world believe.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, saw the earthquake, they feared greatly saying, Truly this was the Son of God.’—[Matt. 27,] v. 54.” 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 433.
Publishing: Public Domain