Their wonder plainly showed

Verse 1
Their wonder plainly shew’d
That suing for his aid,
They had not dictated to God,
But with submission pray’d
In humble faith made known
Their sorrowful request,
And left th’ event to Him alone
Whose will is always best.

Verse 2
But God the poor attends,
When saints afflicted cry,
He knows his Spirit’s mind, and sends
Deliverance from the sky;
He lifts the humble up,
Who at his footstool grieve;
And more than they presum’d to hope
Their Lord delights to give.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished.’—[Acts 12,] v. 16.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 269.
Publishing: Public Domain