Your sires inflam’d with hellish zeal,
Your Popish, Antichristian sires
Rejoic’d the saints of God to kill
By gibbets, racks, or tortring fires:
Their steps ye eagerly pursue,
Severest menaces ye breathe
’Gainst all the Lord’s disciples true,
And bonds, and banishment, and death.
Your sires inflam’d with hellish zeal
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘As your fathers did, so do ye.’—[Acts 7,] v. 51.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 314.
Publishing: Public Domain