Faith we surely know and feel

Faith we surely know and feel
The end of prophecies,
Trusting Thee, who didst foretell
Thine own triumphant rise,
Confident, the hour will come
When we the promis’d life shall gain,
After Thee forsake the tomb,
And in thy kingdom reign.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And now I have told you before it come to pass, that when it is come to pass, ye might believe.’—[John 14,] v. 29." 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 16.
Publishing: Public Domain