Called by Thy gospel-messenger

Verse 1
This is the faith we humbly seek,
The faith which with Thyself we find:
Speak to our souls, in mercy speak,
Thou Friend and Saviour of mankind,
Messiah, sent us from above,
To teach the world, that God is Love.

Verse 2
Call’d by thy gospel-messenger
We gladly his report believe,
But when of thine own mouth we hear,
The truth we savingly receive,
And partners of thy Spirit know
That God is manifest below.

Verse 3
By that inspoken word of thine
Thou dost thy Deity reveal,
The Saviour of the world is mine,
Sav’d from my sins, I surely feel,
The real Christ of God Thou art,
Thy unction speaks it in my heart.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.’—[John 4,] v. 42." 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 232. 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 362.
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