What wisdom can in sinners dwell
Who care for neither heaven nor hell,
Refuse their Saviour to embrace,
And scoff the word of truth and grace?
Howe’er the world their prudence prize,
Unto their own damnation wise,
Their folly they too late shall know,
When mock’d by all the fiends below.
What wisdom can in sinners dwell
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord, and what wisdom is in them?”—[Jer.] viii. 9. 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 16.
Publishing: Public Domain