See and believe! it cannot be

See, and believe! It cannot be:
We first believe, and then we see,
While Israel’s King his power exerts,
And comes from heaven into our hearts.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe.’—[Mark 15,] v. 32.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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 88.
Publishing: Public Domain