Five thousand added in a day

Verse 1
Five thousand added in a day,
Born by the Spirit from above,
The energy of grace display,
The strength of their Redeemer’s love:
The welcom truth they all receive,
Joyful to know their sins forgiven;
Five thousand souls at once believe,
And banquet on the bread from heaven!

Verse 2
The word is crown’d with more success,
Because the preacher suffers more,
While God doth by the flock’s increase
Augment his patient servant’s power;
His servant’s constancy and zeal
Confirm the followers of their Lord,
And all conspire to work his will,
And spread thro’ earth his pardning word.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Many which heard the word, believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.’—[Acts 4,] v. 4.” 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 169.
Publishing: Public Domain