So high, so holy, and so great

Verse 1
“So high, so holy, and so great,
“Why doth your Lord with sinners eat?
“Unfold his strange design:[”]
A Pharisee inquires in vain;
Faith only can the depth explain
Of charity Divine.

Verse 2
God over all forever blest,
Whose Presence is the heavenly feast,
For us his throne he leaves,
His love the Man of grief constrains,
And makes him live with publicans,
And makes him die with thieves!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?’—[Mark 2,] v. 16.” 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 458.
Publishing: Public Domain