Things which from without befall us
Answer oft the things within:
Thus we know the Lord doth call us,
Thus his pointing hand is seen!
For their mutual explanation
Thoughts and Providences join,
Prove the Spirit’s revelation
True, infallible, divine.
Things which from without befall us
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘While Peter doubted in himself, behold the men &c.’—[Acts 10,] v. 17.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 246.
Publishing: Public Domain