The foolishness of preaching hear

Verse 1
The foolishness of preaching hear,
Sinners the strange report believe,
Your God did once on earth appear,
And died that all mankind might live,
Redeem’d, and reconcil’d to God,
Thro’ simple faith in Jesu’s blood.

Verse 2
Believe, and sav’d this moment be
From sin, the guilt, the power, the pain;
Believe, and full salvation see,
Who still your precious faith retain;
Be faithful unto death, and rise
To claim your thrones above the skies.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.”—1 Cor. i. 21. 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. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 22.
Publishing: Public Domain