The Saviour oft his help denies,
Nor gives his ministers success,
That small and vile in their own eyes
They may their want of faith confess,
Of power and good the Fountain own,
And all expect from Christ alone.
The Saviour oft His help denies
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.’—[Matt. 17,] v. 16.” 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 308.
Publishing: Public Domain