Reason and faith together strive

Reason and faith together strive,
Just as the mighty work is wrought:
How can a putrid carcass live,
Or how, out of corruption brought,
My soul in holiness arise,
And live the life of paradise!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.’—[John 11,] v. 39." 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 478.
Publishing: Public Domain