What but thy strength-inspiring eye
Thy weakest servants could sustain?
Jesus, thou dost with grace supply,
And lo, the heathen rage in vain,
They cannot make the workmen cease,
Or stop thy preaching witnesses.
What but Thy strength-inspiring eye
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The eye of their God was upon the elders, so that they could not cause them to cease.”—[Ezra] v. 5. 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 219.
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