Still thy genuin gospel, Lord,
With signs and wonders seal,
Let thine efficacious word
Distemper’d spirits heal,
Let it minister thy grace
To make the inbred lepers clean,
Fiends out of their souls to chase,
And raise the dead in sin.
Still, Thy genuine gospel, Lord
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils.’—[Matt. 10,] v. 8.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 233.
Publishing: Public Domain