The angel-quires their voices raise

Verse 1
The angel-quires their voices raise
To hymn a new-born Infant’s praise,
Own his Divine, Almighty power,
And harping with their harps adore.

Verse 2
And shall the ransom’d sons of men
God in his humbled state disdain,
The manger, as the cross, despise,
Or stumble at their Maker’s cries?

Verse 3
Let Jews and Greeks as folly deem,
His infancy, his death blaspheme
(That two-fold rock of human pride,
A Saviour born and crucified!)

Verse 4
Who truly in our Lord believe,
With joy and triumph we receive
The saving grace in Christ bestow’d,
The Wisdom and the Power of God.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘praising God.'—[Luke 2,] v. 13.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 80.
Publishing: Public Domain