God as He will His grace bestows

God as he will his grace bestows
Thro’ the external sign:
We touch his sacramental clothes,
And feel the power Divine:
Annext to water or to bread
His Spirit we receive,
And help’d by Christ, and heal’d, and fed
The life of angels live.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched it were made whole.’—[Mark 6,] v. 56.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 502.
Publishing: Public Domain