Doth Christ expect what cannot be,
Good fruit out of an evil tree?
The evil tree may then be good,
And flourish, water’d by his blood;
Whoe’er the Christian faith profess
May bring forth fruits of righteousness,
And answer all their Lord’s design,
As branches of the heavenly vine.
Doth Christ expect what cannot be
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?”—[Isa.] v. 4. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 377.
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