Jesu’s followers all confess

Jesus’ followers all confess
That Him they have beheld,
Known the bleeding Prince of peace,
And felt his love reveal’d:
Yet I cannot trust their word,
Till folding in my faith’s embrace,
Him I find to life restor’d,
Who suffer’d in my place.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The other disciples said unto him, We have seen the Lord.’—[John 20,] v. 25." 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 109.
Publishing: Public Domain