Faith and the Holy Ghost bestow’d
On man, can make the evil good:
And such who form’d them by his grace,
God only knows his saints to praise:
And saints all other praise disown
But that which comes from God alone.
Faith and the Holy Ghost bestowed
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost, and of faith.’—[Acts 11,] v. 24.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 346.
Publishing: Public Domain