Lo the wedding is prepared

Lo, the wedding is prepar’d,
(He to his servants said)
Call who will the call regard,
In faithless Israel’s stead:
Bidden first since they refuse,
And all my invitations scorn,
Leave the reprobated Jews,
And to the Gentiles turn.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.’—[Matt. 22,] v. 8.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 350.
Publishing: Public Domain