When with eyes of faith we see
Jesus fasten’d to the tree,
Very man, and very God
Pouring, not his tears, but blood,
Grateful on the sight we gaze,
Cry in passionate amaze,
See, his tender mercy prov’d!
See, how well the world He lov’d!
When with eyes of faith we see
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him.’—[John 11,] v. 36." 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 476.
Publishing: Public Domain