 | The poetical works of John and Charles Wesley |  |
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[Who wills us, if His soul we love]
He that reproveth a scorner getteth, &c.
—ix. 7.
Who wills us, if His soul we love,
Sin in a brother to reprove,
Forbids us to misspend our zeal
On a proud, harden'd infidel:
And who the precious truths Divine
Exposes to such dogs and swine,
Is by their scornful malice rent,
And well deserves his punishment.
Sin in a brother to reprove,
Forbids us to misspend our zeal
On a proud, harden'd infidel:
And who the precious truths Divine
Exposes to such dogs and swine,
Is by their scornful malice rent,
And well deserves his punishment.
Let us, with mild discerning eye,
Pity, and pass a scorner by;
Our rash censorious zeal restrain,
Nor hurt ourselves, nor him in vain.
But whom, divinely taught we spare,
Offer to God in silent prayer,
Who stones to children can convert,
And change, like ours, the proudest heart.
Pity, and pass a scorner by;
Our rash censorious zeal restrain,
Nor hurt ourselves, nor him in vain.
But whom, divinely taught we spare,
Offer to God in silent prayer,
Who stones to children can convert,
And change, like ours, the proudest heart.
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