The world rebuke in vain

The world rebuke in vain,
And would my clamours still,
Till mercy I obtain,
I must cry on, and will,
Mercy thou Son of David show,
And give me eyes Thyself to know.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more &c.’—[Mark 10,] v. 48.” 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 37.
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