Wesley Corpus

Page 146 "Judge not, that ye be not judged." Matt. vii. 1. Jesus, rebuke my fiery zeal And bid it all depart, This rash, censorious pride expel Forever from my heart; That only to myself severe, When others I reprove, My censure may to all appear The meek result of love. "Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye." Matt. vii. 5. While faults in others I reprove, If my own sins I cloak and love, I may with self-importance swell, And boast the bold reformer's zeal, But God denominates me aright A blind, censorious hypocrite. "Then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye." Matt. vii. 5. If wilful sin hath blinded me, My brother's faults I cannot see, But if I have cast out the beam, I may discern the mote in him, And kindly help him to remove The smaller hindrances of love. "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine." Matt. vii. 6. O may we never more expose Thy holy things divine To men prophane, thine open foes, Resembling dogs and swine: Saviour, repress our forward zeal A scorner to reprove, To tell the world what Christians feel, And boast our perfect love.