The Babe unseen His power displays

Verse 1
The Babe unseen his power displays,
And works upon a babe unseen,
To shew the mystery of grace,
When speaking by the tongue of men,
Jesus is pleas’d to minister
His life thro’ the believing ear.

Verse 2
Jesus, who in his church below
Invisibly vouchsafes to dwell,
Doth daily thus his power bestow,
His energy in souls reveal:
The word they still by faith receive,
And quicken’d thro’ his Spirit live.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb: and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost.’—Luke 1, v. 41.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 107.
Publishing: Public Domain