Hymn VIII. Long Metre. Uncharitable Judgment

ALL-knowing God, 'tis thine to know The springs whence wrong opinions flow; To judge from principles within, When frailty errs, and when we sin.

Who, among men, high Lord of all, Thy servants, to his bar, may call? Decide of heresy, and shake A brother o'er the flaming lake?

Who, with another's eye, can read? Or worship, by another's creed? Revering thy command alone, We humbly seek and use our own.

If wrong, forgive; accept, if right, Whilst faithful we obey our light; And, cens'ring none, are zealous still To follow, as to learn, thy will.

When shall our happy eyes behold Thy people, fashion'd in thy mould? And charity our lineage prove, Deriv'd from thee, O God of love?