Can ye the Spirit’s course confine,
Or teach the Master whom to use?
Prophets to send, O Lord, is thine;
And if thou still the meanest chuse,
Open our mouth, inlarge our heart,
To preach the all-redeeming God,
Thousands and myriads to convert,
And seal the record with our blood.
Can ye the Spirit’s course confine
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The testimony of Jesus, is the spirit of prophecy.”—[Rev.] xix. 10. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 238.
Publishing: Public Domain