Souls are by temptation shewn
Jesus who a while pursue;
Trials make them fully known,
Separate ’twixt the false and true:
Thro’ thy quick and powerful word,
Lord, Thou soundest every heart:
Then they feel the two-edg’d sword,
Then the hypocrites depart.
Souls are by temptation shown
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.’—[John 6,] v. 66." 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 393.
Publishing: Public Domain