The wise applaud; but all beside
Condemn the wisdom from above;
It ever was by those decry’d
Who neither fear our God, nor love.
The wise applaud; but all beside
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Wisdom is justified of her children.”—[Matt.] xi. 19. 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 251.
Publishing: Public Domain