Jesus coming to Thine own

Jesus coming to thine own,
Thine own receive thee not,
All the wonders Thou hast done
Are slighted and forgot:
O that I may understand
Thy gracious mind, and plainly see
That Divine Almighty Hand
Stretch’d out to rescue me!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He supposed his brethren would have understood &c.’—[Acts 7,] v. 25.” 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 208.
Publishing: Public Domain