With ease a wise, unbiass’d man
May innocence perceive,
And should against its foes maintain,
And full assistance give;
But guiltier far than all the rest
The friend of equity,
Unless he rescue the opprest,
And set the captive free.
With ease a wise, unbiased man
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Whom I perceived to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.’—[Acts 23,] v. 29.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 415.
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