God cannot take delight to grieve
The wretched helpless sons of men,
But may awhile in weakness leave,
That all his power may soon be seen:
His work is to restore the blind;
And when he doth the scales remove,
Our Lord by his own light we find
And praise the pardning God of love.
God cannot take delight to grieve
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.’—[John 9,] v. 3." 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 437.
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