Who wills us, if His soul we love

Verse 1
Who wills us, if his soul we love,
Sin in a brother to reprove,
Forbids us to mis-spend our zeal,
On a proud, hardned infidel:
And who the precious truths divine
Exposes to such dogs and swine,
Is by their scornful malice rent,
And well deserves his punishment.

Verse 2
Let us with mild, discerning eye
Pity, and pass a scorner by,
Our rash, censorious zeal restrain,
Nor hurt ourselves and him in vain,
But whom, divinely taught, we spare,
Offer to God in silent prayer,
Who stones to children can convert,
And change, like ours, the proudest heart.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He that reproveth a scorner, getteth to himself shame.’—[Prov.] 9:7.” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” 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 1977/576, 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. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 347.
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