Stranger far the miracle
Which doth a soul convert,
When our Lord vouchsafes to heal
Our impotence of heart:
Outward miracles are done,
That we th’ Invisible may see,
God who all his power makes known
In man’s infirmity.
Stranger far the miracle
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And they knew it was he which sat for alms: and they were filled with wonder.’—[Acts 3,] v. 10.” 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 161.
Publishing: Public Domain