Ask we, now the storm is laid

Verse 1
Ask we, now the storm is laid,
Wherefore was my heart afraid?
Lord, with shame the cause I see,
Want of confidence in Thee.

Verse 2
But thy love doth not despise
Nature’s most imperfect cries,
Souls o’rewhelm’d with doubts and fears,
Faith which next to none appears.

Verse 3
Thou my little faith increase,
Till my last temptations cease,
Till thy goodness I adore
Safe on the eternal shore.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Why are ye fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?’—[Mark 4,] v. 40.” 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 480.
Publishing: Public Domain