The Jews beheld the Lord Most High

Verse 1
The Jews beheld the Lord Most high,
When God on earth appear’d,
His wonders saw with careless eye,
His slighted sayings heard:
They would not own that Christ was He,
The true, eternal God,
Held fast their incredulity,
And perish’d in their blood.

Verse 2
Professors still his name abuse,
His sacraments and word,
Subjection to his will refuse,
And falsely call him Lord:
But O, what profit wilt thou find,
Thou Christian infidel,
To sorer punishment consign’d,
And to an hotter hell!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.’—[Luke 13,] v. 26.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 147. Verse 1 and the first half of verse 2 were published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 220.
Publishing: Public Domain