Who follow Christ in good delight

Verse 1
Who follow Christ in good delight:
The soul they in his name invite,
Sinner, thy hand extend,
In alms and prayer thy faith to show;
Extend thy hand to grasp a foe,
And turn him to a friend.

Verse 2
But Thou, my Saviour, must confer
The energy of faith and prayer,
The life of charity:
Whoe’er exerts his wither’d hand,
Transmitted thro’ thy sole command
The virtue comes from Thee.

Verse 3
Thy hand, O Lord, o’re us extend,
To bless, and strengthen, and defend,
To heal and sanctify,
To fit for every righteous deed,
To mould after thy will, and lead,
And lift us to the sky.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand: and he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.’—[Mark 3,] v. 5.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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 464.
Publishing: Public Domain