By prayer disposed to hear the word

Verse 1
By prayer dispos’d to hear the word,
Which did the saving faith convey,
She readily receiv’d her Lord;
But He inclin’d her heart to pray,
And carried on the work begun,
And made his pardning mercy known.

Verse 2
The Lord whoever truly fears
Sincere in an imperfect state,
Least of his outward worshippers,
Earnest for farther light to wait,
The gospel-light shall clearly see,
And feel “The Saviour died for me.”

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘A certain woman which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken.’—[Acts 16,] v. 14.” 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 315.
Publishing: Public Domain