Christ himself, unless he wrought
His Father’s works, alone,
Willing was not to be thought
The great Jehovah’s Son:
And would we be own’d untried?
Believ’d, before the proofs are shew’d?
No; let works the doubt decide,
And speak us born of God.
Christ himself, unless he wrought
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.’—[John 10,] v. 37." 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 246.
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