An ignorant crowd of sinners we join

Verse 1
An ignorant croud Of sinners we join,
And publish aloud The wonders Divine,
With fixt admiration We joyfully praise
The work of salvation, The triumph of grace.

Verse 2
It never was heard, It never was seen,
Till Jesus appear’d A Man among men,
Who comes to inherit, And dwells in his own,
Expels the dumb spirit, And rules us alone.

Verse 3
The Pharisees rage At Jesus’s power;
Reviv’d in our age His work we adore;
Tho’ with the blasphemer The learned agree,
Almighty Redeemer, We glorify Thee.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When the devil was cast out, the dumb spake, and the multitude marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel.’—[Matt. 9,] v. 33.” 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 228.
Publishing: Public Domain