Wesley Corpus

Epistle to Whitefield (1771) (Stanza 4)

AuthorCharles Wesley
Typehymn-stanza
Year1771
Passage IDcw-duke-epistle-to-whitefield-1771-stanza-04
Words65
Sourcehttps://divinity.duke.edu/initiatives/wesleyan-methodist/...
Works of Mercy Assurance Scriptural Authority
Page 4 With hasty blindfold rage, in error's night, How did we with our fellow-soldiers fight! We could not then our Father's children know, But each mistook his brother for his foe. "Foes to the truth, can you in conscience spare? Tear them, (the tempter cry'd) in pieces, tear!" So thick the darkness, so confus'd the noise, We took the stranger's for the shepherd's voice;