Faith beholds th’ Invisible:
An heavenly Pilot’s hand
Undergirds the shatter’d keel,
And guides it to the strand:
Safe thro’ the tempestuous deep
To Malta’s fatal isle he steers;
Malta’s isle must break the ship,
And save the passengers.
Faith beholds the’ invisible
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.’—[Acts 27,] v. 26." 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 441.
Publishing: Public Domain