The world with spurious wisdom blind
Always reject the true,
Occasion of offence they find
In Him they never knew;
They stumble at his low estate
Who left his throne above,
Humbled himself, to make us great,
And crown us with his love.
The world with spurious wisdom blind
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Is not this the carpenter &c.’—[Mark 6,] v. 3.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 492.
Publishing: Public Domain