The greatest miracles of grace

Verse 1
The greatest miracles of grace
Can only silence and confound,
Not change the persecuting race,
Unless the Lord their conscience wound,
His efficacious love exert,
And break the unbelievers heart.

Verse 2
The dire effects of envious pride
Ev’n now our blind opposers show:
The proofs stand forth on every side,
The sinners heal’d they see and know,
And can no longer, Lord, gainsay,
Yet still refuse the truth t’ obey.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.’—[Acts 4,] v. 14.” 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 175.
Publishing: Public Domain