All the comfortable aid

Verse 1
All the comfortable aid
Thro’ a worm to worms convey’d,
All the grace, we gladly own,
Lord, it flows from Thee alone:
Yet, if Thou vouchsafe to bless,
Crown their labours with success,
Ministers shall helpers prove,
Much increase our faith and love.

Verse 2
Needful Thee alone we know:
Grace by whom Thou wilt bestow,
Stablishing, confirming grace,
Power to perfect holiness:
We the instruments receive;
Thro’ their word thy Spirit give,
Cephas use, Apollos, Paul;
Still Thou workest all in all.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Who when he was come, helped much through grace them which had believed.’—[Acts 18,] v. 27." 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 355.
Publishing: Public Domain