Shall man to God a method shew,
Or teach the Spirit how to blow?
He passes all our fancied bounds,
Our systems, plans, and rules confounds,
Our marks, and states, in vain defin’d
By the blind leaders of the blind;
Who all at last with shame shall own
Th’ unerring guide was Christ alone.
Shall man to God a method shew
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Is the Spirit of the Lord straitened?”—Mic. ii. 7. 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 96.
Publishing: Public Domain