Who yield their hearts the sordid throne

Verse 1
Who yield their hearts the sordid throne
Of pride or base desire,
Jesus they for their King disown,
And still his death require:
Away with him! they will not have
This man of woe to reign,
They will not suffer him to save,
But crucify again.

Verse 2
Cesar their only king they know;
The power invisible
The kingdom of thy grace below,
Lord, they refuse to feel:
The throne they might with Thee divide,
The holy Ghost receive,
But will not suffer at thy side,
And in thy glory live.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him &c.’—[John 19,] v. 15." 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 83.
Publishing: Public Domain