We cannot rest, who Jesus know

Verse 1
We cannot rest who Jesus know,
Till others know him too,
Till Christ on them his gifts bestow,
On them his wonders shew:
Sinners we bring to Christ where’er
Distemper’d souls we find,
And wish that all with us may share
The Saviour of mankind.

Verse 2
We spread the odour of his name,
His name divinely sweet,
The helpless, sick, and blind, and lame
We cast at Jesus feet;
We publish the whole land around
The world’s Physician near:
He now in England’s church is found;
Come all, and meet him here!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They knew him, and ran throughout that whole region round about, and began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.’—[Mark 6,] v. [54,] 55.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Verse 1 was published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 57-58. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 502.
Publishing: Public Domain