By tasting Him we know

By tasting Him we know,
By faith we come and see
Th’ Invisible reveal’d below,
Th’ incarnate Deity:
We search the written word,
We weigh, and all things prove,
And wait the leizure of our Lord
To manifest his love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Philip saith unto him, Come and see.’—[John 1,] v. 46." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 217.
Publishing: Public Domain