When our God the gospel gives

Verse 1
When our God the gospel gives
Cloth’d with his own Spirit’s might,
Then the open’d heart believes,
Then our soul’s restor’d to sight.
We its hidden beauty see,
Taste the sweetness of the word,
Feel its powerful energy,
Wondring own our heavenly Lord.

Verse 2
He disarms the hostile mind,
He doth all its hate remove;
By his word transform’d we find
Holy peace and humble love:
Never mortal spake like Him!
More than man He needs must be:
Is He not the God supreme?
Answer, Lord, thyself in me!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The officers answered, Never man spake like this man.’—[John 7,] v. 46." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 410.
Publishing: Public Domain