A sign admired by Thy redeemed

Verse 1
A Sign admir’d by thy redeem’d,
Precious to every faithful heart,
But contradicted and blasphem’d
By worldly infidels Thou art,
Who dare thy Deity deny,
And all thy heavenly truths decry.

Verse 2
The manger mean, and bleeding cross,
Thy birth, and passion they gainsay,
Thy maxims pure, and gracious laws,
And will not own thy righteous sway,
But plead for that old hellish liar,
And hardned in their sins expire.

Verse 3
Yet every tongue at last shall own,
And God the awful Judge declare,
When seated on thy righteous throne
Thou doom’st the wicked at thy bar,
Justly consign’d to their own place
Forever banish’d from thy face.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘This Child is set for a sign which shall be spoken against.'—[Luke 2,] v. 34.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 121.
Publishing: Public Domain