Providence extends its care

Verse 1
Providence extends its care
To things minutely small,
Things the most contingent are
By Wisdom order’d all:
Happy they that know his mind,
Obedient to his leading grace,
God in every action find,
And own in all their ways.

Verse 2
By thy word and Spirit led,
And Providential will
Sure to prosper in our deed,
Our net at last we fill:
Fruitless pains and labours crost
Must finally succesful be;
Nothing, Lord, was ever lost
By faithfulness to Thee.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Cast the net on the right side, and ye shall find.’—[John 21,] v. 6." 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 117.
Publishing: Public Domain