The word conditional he knew

Verse 1
The word conditional, he knew,
Did on th’ appointed means depend,
And God the merciful and true
Would on their toil his blessing send:
He knew the oracle was sure,
For Truth himself the promise gave,
And Jesus would the lives secure
Of all who strove themselves to save.

Verse 2
The Saviour never supersedes
The hallow’d industry of man,
But when our faith his promise pleads
He bids us every sinew strain:
And while we in the ship abide,
Exerting all our gracious power,
With Jesus we the storm outride,
And reach thro’ Him the heavenly shore.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.’—[Acts 27,] v. 31." 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 441.
Publishing: Public Domain