Oft have I heard, O Lord, and read

Oft have I heard, O Lord, and read
Thy wondrous works perform’d of old,
Yet unconvinc’d by word or deed,
My free and full assent with-hold:
Such is my stubborness of will,
Help’d by preventing grace in vain,
Unless I see thy power and feel,
I still an infidel remain.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.’—[John 4,] v. 48." 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 232.
Publishing: Public Domain