When the gospel of grace

Verse 1
When the gospel of grace
Is proclaim’d in our days,
From all places around
What a multitude flock to the life-giving sound!
To the church they repair;
For Jesus is there
In his virtue to heal,
And ready his love in their hearts to reveal.

Verse 2
The desperate croud
With infirmities bow’d,
Sick of every sin,
And vex’d with a legion of spirits unclean
The Physician attend,
And his goodness commend,
Who his patients relieves,
And a pardon to all the incurable gives.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘There came a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folk, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.’—[Acts 5,] v. 16.” 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 186.
Publishing: Public Domain