Christ no further effort makes

Christ no farther effort makes
Men to teach who will not see,
Harden’d infidels forsakes
In their infidelity:
Passing to the other side,
When he gives the sinner o’re,
Parted by the gulph of pride
God and man can meet no more.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He left them, and entring into the ship again, departed to the other side.’—[Mark 8,] v. 13.” 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 13.
Publishing: Public Domain