From the fools reputed wise
Justly, Lord, thou hast conceal’d
Things divine, which they despise,
Mysteries to babes reveal’d:
Father, me, even me convert,
Then the kingdom from above
Send into my childlike heart,
Peace, and joy, and righteous love.
From the fools reputed wise
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and revealed them unto babes.”—[Matt.] xi. 25. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). 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 252.
Publishing: Public Domain