Zeal will nothing leave undone

Verse 1
Zeal will nothing leave undone,
The ignorant to win:
Prudence yields to every one,
Without committing sin:
Humble saints advis’d will be,
Nor ever of themselves presume:
Condescending charity
Doth all to all become.

Verse 2
But can Paul be justified?
To blame let others dare,
Magisterially decide
“Th’ Apostle went too far:”
Nothing from th’ event appears,
But, that the God of boundless grace
Sends his suffering messengers
To all our ransom’d race.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘We have four men which have a vow on them; Them take, and purify thyself with them &c.’—[Acts 21,] v. 23, 24." 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 389.
Publishing: Public Domain