Who slights the warning word

Verse 1
Who slights the warning word,
And no deception fears,
Confounds the servants of the Lord
With Satan’s messengers:
The prophets old and new,
The saint’s and Gnostick’s dream,
Apostles false, apostles true
Are all alike to him.

Verse 2
Jesus, thy wisdom give,
And bid my heart beware
That no false witness may deceive,
Or take me in his snare:
O may I ne’er confide
In spirits unprov’d, unknown,
But trust in my unerring Guide,
And in thy word alone.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Jesus said, Take heed that no man deceive you.’—[Matt. 24,] v. 4.” 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 367.
Publishing: Public Domain