Th’ ungrateful, unbelieving croud
Tie up the bounteous hands of God,
And stop his saving power;
Yet with the sick of sin he stays,
And every soul that needs his grace
He doth to health restore.
The’ ungrateful unbelieving crowd
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He could do there no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.’—[Mark 6,] v. 5.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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 492.
Publishing: Public Domain