Was it not Thy kind design

Was it not thy kind design
To make our discord cease,
God with man t’ unite, and join
Thy church in lasting peace?
Answering thy benign intent,
Come in thy Spirit from above,
All thy people, Lord, cement
In pure fraternal love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again.’—[Acts 7,] v. 26.” 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 208.
Publishing: Public Domain