Ev’n in the most degenerate days
Some witnesses reserv’d shall be,
Some vessels of peculiar grace,
Conceal’d from man, but known to thee;
Thou only canst their number tell:
O may they prosperously go on,
’Till thousands into millions swell,
And all mankind in Christ are one.
Even in the most degenerate days
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Yet have I left me seven thousand in Israel.”—[I. Kings] xix. 18. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 182.
Publishing: Public Domain