Thy work, O God, they will not see

Verse 1
Thy work, O God, they will not see
Reviv’d in our degenerate days,
Or mark the crouds begot by Thee,
The signs of thy converting grace,
Refusing with their sin to part
That wilful blindness of the heart.

Verse 2
Sinners, your bosom-sins let go,
So shall ye all the truth perceive,
Your time of visitation know,
And savingly in Christ believe,
Increase the publicans forgiven,
And live on earth the life of heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “How is it, that ye do not discern this time?”—[Luke] xii. 56. Wesley originally published verse 1 of this hymn in his 1762 hymnal "Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2" (Bristol: Farley, 1762). He later added the second verse in his unpublished 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.”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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 217.
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