Ye patient of applause and fame

Verse 1
Ye patient of applause and fame,
Bold to usurp the Christian name,
No more your souls deceive;
Who seek the praise that comes from men,
Ye boast your hearsay faith in vain;
Ye cannot yet believe.

Verse 2
By fellow-worms carest, belov’d,
Ye cannot be by God approv’d,
Vile fav’rites of his foe,
Who incense from the world receive,
In fair repute and honours live,
And have your lot below.

Verse 3
Awake out of your pleasing dream,
Renounce yourselves, the world’s esteem
The world’s reproach despise,
As sojourners on earth unknown,
Wish to be prais’d by God alone
Your Father in the skies.

Verse 4
Your pride and want of faith lament,
And then believe whom God hath sent
To speak your sins forgiven,
Your sinful nature to remove,
And perfected in humble love
To give you thrones in heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only.”—[John] v. 44. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 375.
Publishing: Public Domain