Out of the croud he first must take,
Before his grace he shew:
Sinner, the busy world forsake,
And with thy Saviour go;
Then shall the God of pard’ning love
Bid all thy sin depart,
And by a sovereign touch remove
The blindness of thy heart.
Out of the crowd He first must take
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “He took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town.”—[Mark] viii. 23. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). 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 16.
Publishing: Public Domain