The times and seasons when to give
His grace, are in my Saviour’s power;
And what I cannot now receive,
I shall, in his appointed hour:
His great salvation is for me,
The moment when I need not know;
Suffice that I my Lord shall see,
And walk as Jesus walk’d below.
The times and seasons when to give
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now, but thou shalt follow me afterwards.’—[John 13,] v. 36." 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 262.
Publishing: Public Domain