An answer plain and full we give

Verse 1
An answer plain and full we give,
When friends, or candid foes demand,
Willing our witness to receive,
The truth to know and understand:
The truth we then with joy impart,
And speak to thy disciples heart.

Verse 2
Weary of publishing thy grace
To listening souls, we cannot be:
But if they proud objections raise,
Resist the light, and will not see,
And judges of thy work appear,
They are not worthy, Lord, to hear.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples?’—[John 9,] v. 27." 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 447.
Publishing: Public Domain