Yes; their slanderous lies I hear,
As one that hears them not,
Silent at the bar appear
Where truth is never sought:
Let them every evil say,
Against the servant testify:
Judg’d in man’s unrighteous day,
I as my Lord reply.
Yes; their slanderous lies I hear
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?’—[Matt. 27,] v. 13.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 419.
Publishing: Public Domain