When Jesus hath his kingdom sown,
It imperceptibly grows on;
No mention of “a work between,
“Hearts instantaneously made clean,
“The root of sin at once destroy’d,
“The new, imaginary void,[”]
The Spirit bound by fancied rules,
The church o’rerun with frantic fools!
When Jesus hath his kingdom sown
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘It is like a grain of mustard seed, which when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds &c.’—Mark 4, v. 31, 32.” 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. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 55-56.
Publishing: Public Domain