The wisdom of our Lord would choose

Verse 1
The wisdom of our Lord would chuse
A traitor by the fiend possest,
That none the guiltless may accuse,
Or stumbling at a wicked priest,
Deny the Ministerial call,
And dare for one to censure all.

Verse 2
Whate’er the messenger he sends,
He gives the efficacious grace:
The word and sacrament depends
On Christ for its assur’d success,
Whate’er of good on earth is done
Christ doth it all, and Christ alone.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And Judas Iscariot who also betrayed him.’—[Matt. 10,] v. 4.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 24.
Publishing: Public Domain