Happy whome’er the God of grace
Beholds with looks of tender love!
His look is saving to our race,
Our miseries and sins remove,
His looks immortal strength impart,
And reach the poor, expecting heart.
Happy whome’er the God of grace
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon &c.’—[John 1,] v. 42." 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 217.
Publishing: Public Domain