Who refuse the truth t’ obey

Verse 1
Who refuse the truth t’ obey,
Would all its friends oppress,
Others turn out of the way
To life and happiness,
Alienate th’ unwary mind,
Lest sinners should their Lord approve,
Find what Jews disdain to find,
And rest in Jesus’ love.

Verse 2
Outward Jews, who vainly still
The Christian faith profess,
Stir the heathens up and fill
Their hearts with bitterness,
Sinners they provoke to hate
The followers of the bleeding Lamb,
Harden in their lost estate,
And keep in Satan’s name.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil-affected against the brethren.’—[Acts 14,] v. 2.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 359.
Publishing: Public Domain