Do what Thou wilt; it should be so;
If now I cannot sound thy mind,
Thy work I shall hereafter know
The meaning of thy conduct find:
Death shall e’erlong unwind the maze
Th’ inpenetrable cloud remove,
And then I see, that all thy ways
Were wisdom, faithfulness, and love.
Do what Thou wilt; it should be so
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.”—[John] xiii. 7. 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 502. Wesley later altered this hymn in his 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.
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