The messengers rejected

Verse 1
The messengers rejected
May cry in every nation
How few embrace The word of grace,
The gospel of salvation!
Not all his outward wonders
Can force us to believe him
Till Jesus’ love The veil remove;
And then our hearts receive him.

Verse 2
The Arm of the Almighty
We plainly then discover,
And Christ the Power Of God adore
Our souls’ eternal Lover;
Who manifests the Father,
Restores us to his favour,
To end our sin, His mind brings in,
And lives in man forever.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?’—[John 12,] v. 38." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 495.
Publishing: Public Domain