Jesus himself to works appeals;
Him by his works he bids us prove,
Yet what the warm enthusiast tells
Of dreams, and visits from above,
He wills his hearers to receive,
And simply on his word believe.
Jesus himself to works appeals
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Go, and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see.’—[Matt. 11,] v. 4.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 27.
Publishing: Public Domain