Christ is the head, the corner stone

Verse 1
Christ is the head, the corner stone,
The Basis firm is Christ alone!
But you who o’re his church preside,
Have always scorn’d the Crucified,
Have Jesus for your King refus’d,
And in his dearest saints abus’d.

Verse 2
His members, one in heart and mind,
Most strictly each to other join’d,
Who constitute his church below,
And closest in his footsteps go,
Ye hate, and spitefully reject,
And brand them as a separate sect.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.’—[Acts 4,] v. 11.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School.
Publishing: Public Domain