Made capable through Jesus’ word

Verse 1
Made capable thro’ Jesus word
The quickning voice of God to hear,
To praise him by all heaven ador’d,
His person and his character
We testify in Christ exprest,
And bear his image in our breast.

Verse 2
Jesus, the Patron of mankind
With fixt astonishment we praise,
The end of all his wonders find,
His works are miracles of grace,
His power in acts of mercy shew’d
Only intends his creature’s good.

Verse 3
The deaf, we to his voice attend,
“Be sav’d; be perfected; come up!”
The dumb in rapt’rous hymns ascend,
And shouting gain the mountain-top,
In songs of pure Seraphic joy
A blest eternity t’ employ.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They were beyond measure astonished, saying, he hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.’—[Mark 7,] v. 37.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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 9.
Publishing: Public Domain