Who hears the word, and disbelieves,
He stumbles on this Stone,
And grievous hurt the soul receives
That will not Jesus own:
But if in unbelief he dies,
His doom how terrible,
When Christ descending from the skies
Shall crush him into hell!
Who hears the word and disbelieves
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Whosoever shall fall on this stone, shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.’—[Matt. 21,] v. 44.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. 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 348.
Publishing: Public Domain