See ye misbelieving race

Verse 1
See, ye misbelieving race,
Read it on your prisoner’s face,
By the shining token know
Stephen is not Moses’ foe:
God himself doth witness bear,
More than innocent declare;
With celestial grace indued
Marks him for the friend of God.

Verse 2
Signs alas, cannot suffice,
Blind your hearts, if not your eyes,
All that human Angel see,
All that angel’s death decree!
Thus, my God, if Thou bestow
Angels on thy church below,
Still the world refuse to own,
Still the messengers they stone.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.’—[Acts 6,] v. 15.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 200.
Publishing: Public Domain