Wretched far above the rest
Who shamefully entreat
Those that bid them to the feast,
And tread beneath their feet:
They their hated brethren slay
Who daily thirst to shed their blood,
Murtherers of the servants they,
And murtherers of their God.
Wretched far above the rest
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.’—Matt. 22,] Verse 6.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 36.
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