Only thus, by stooping low,
By divine humility,
Can I my Redeemer know,
Him who left the grave for me:
Prostrate faith with watry eyes
Looks into the sepulchre,
Sees the tokens of his rise,
Sees its living Lord appear.
Only thus by stooping low
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He stooping down, and looking in, saw the linnet clothes lying.’—[John 20,] v. 5." 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 102.
Publishing: Public Domain