Who builders should by office be

Verse 1
Who builders should by office be,
Or pillars to support the dome,
They will not own that Christ is He,
Or hear him, now the Prophet’s come,
Or for their rightful King receive,
Or by his death consent to live.

Verse 2
The Basis of his church below,
The Cement, Corner-stone, and Head,
They wilfully refuse to know,
On Jesus and his members tread,
Till all compleat the Temple rise,
And shine eternal in the skies.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The Stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner.’—[Luke 20,] v. 17.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 184.
Publishing: Public Domain