The first effect of grace Divine

The first effect of grace Divine
Is at the soul’s espousals shew’d,
It changes water into wine,
And gives our faith a taste of God:
The second sign to life restores
The soul that Jesus word receives,
And man th’ eternal God adores,
And God in man eternal lives!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judea into Galilee.’—[John 4,] v. 54." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 233-34.
Publishing: Public Domain