Who with hate implacable

Verse 1
Who with hate implacable
The Lord of life oppose,
Pharisees against their will
Their own foul hearts disclose:
Men who would the world engage
Their own blind followers to be,
Lo, the world, with envious rage,
Gone after Christ they see!

Verse 2
Who with envy now behold
His messengers success,
(Like your predecessors old)
Your baffled pride confess:
Ye that love the praise of men,
Must surely forfeit their esteem,
If the love of Jesus reign,
And all go after Him.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.’—[John 12,] v. 19." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 253-54.
Publishing: Public Domain