Who the truth and us oppose
Its blacken’d witnesses,
Once confronted with our foes
We easily repress;
When their slanders most abound,
Superior in the strength of love,
All our haters we confound
By calling them to prove.
Who the truth and us oppose
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.’—[Acts 24,] v. 13." 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 418.
Publishing: Public Domain