Who will not now the word believe

Who will not now the word believe,
And feel that wondrous birth below,
How shall their carnal hearts conceive
The joys which in thy presence flow,
The rivers of unmixt delight,
The pleasures of thy house above,
The soul-beatifying sight,
The extasies of glorious love!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘If I have told you earthly things and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?’—[John 3,] v. 12." 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 221. The first half was 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 344.
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