Appear, to us appear

Verse 1
Appear, to us appear,
And kindly now reprove
Our harden’d heart, our faithless fear
Which doubts thy pardning love;
Which disbelieves the men,
And contradicts their word,
Who witness, they themselves have seen,
Who preach their living Lord.

Verse 2
If Thou vouchsafe to show
Thy presence to our heart,
The mountains of our sins shall flow,
And unbelief depart,
While one with Thee our Head,
And to thy members join’d,
We witness Thou art ris’n indeed
To quicken all mankind.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He appeared unto the eleven, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.’—[Mark 16,] v. 14.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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 96.
Publishing: Public Domain