Christ presenting to their view

Verse 1
Christ presenting to their view,
Their Resurrection here,
Setters forth of doctrines new
We to the wise appear:
Things astonishing we tell,
By vain Philosophy untaught;
Love incomprehensible,
And souls redeem’d for nought!

Verse 2
The stupendous things of God
To guilty man we show,
Testify the grace bestow’d
Which every soul may know;
News we bring of cancel’d sin,
From Him, whose love is unconfin’d:
Nothing can his mercy mean
But life—for all mankind!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Thou bringest strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.’—[Acts 17,] v. 20." 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 338.
Publishing: Public Domain