The world, O Lord, will not receive
Thy word to sinners given;
They see thy church in plenty live,
And fed with bread from heaven:
Yet though thou dost thy blessings pour,
Incessant from the sky,
They never taste the gracious shower,
But unbelievers die.
The world, O Lord, will not receive
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Thou shall see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.”—[II. Kings] vii. 2. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 195.
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