The visits of unusual grace

The visits of unusual grace
We should with diffidence receive,
But not with infidel distress
Which will not on full proof believe:
Yet, till the Lord fresh grace bestow,
To guard the former and explain,
His gifts we neither use nor know,
But turn his blessings into bane.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He said unto them, Why are ye troubled?’—[Luke 24,] v. 38.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 210.
Publishing: Public Domain