How happy, Lord, are we, repulsed and scorned

Verse 1
How happy, Lord, are we
Repuls’d and scorn’d with Thee!
Charg’d with thy reproach and shame,
Glad the trial we abide:
Let them still cast out our name,
Treat us like the Crucified!

Verse 2
Who suffer for thy sake
We shall thy joy partake,
Sure as now thy cross we bear,
Till with life we lay it down,
We shall all thy glories share,
Sit exalted on thy throne.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The Stone which the builders rejected, is become the head of the corner.’—Mark 12, v. 10.” 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 52.
Publishing: Public Domain