Christ the times and seasons knows

Verse 1
Christ the times and seasons knows
His counsels wise to give;
Grace he then on us bestows
His sayings to receive:
First his Godhead he reveals,
The Man who suffer’d in our stead,
Then our sympathy foretells,
Our dying with our Head.

Verse 2
Followers of the Crucified,
His grace almighty prove,
First believe for you He died
And trust his faithful love:
Then expect the great distress,
Crush’d by the persecutor’s power,
Jesus patient mind possess,
And face the fiery hour.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.’—[John 16,] v. 4." 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 36.
Publishing: Public Domain