Still by faith we see Him wait
Sinners offerings to receive;
There, He at the temple-gate
Judges of the alms we give:
But his thoughts and ways we own
Far above out of our sight:
Sitting on thy heavenly throne,
All thy judgments, Lord, are right.
Still by faith we see Him wait
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury &c.’—[Mark 12,] v. 41.” 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 58.
Publishing: Public Domain