Whene’er Thou dost Thy grace bestow

Verse 1
Whene’er Thou dost the grace bestow,
Lest proudly I the blessing show,
A second gift impart,
Tell it to none with vain delight,
Tell it to none in mercy write
On my poor broken heart.

Verse 2
If cleans’d by Thee ev’n now I am,
Let my obedience first proclaim
My great Physician’s praise;
Before my lips to others tell,
Thou bidst me to the priest reveal
The wonders of thy grace.

Verse 3
Order’d by Thee, O Lord, I go,
And to the priest myself I show
Heal’d by a touch of thine,
That when the priest thy witness sees,
Convinc’d, he may himself confess
My Healer is Divine.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘See thou tell no man, but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer &c.’—[Matt. 8,] v. 4.” Wesley originally published verses 1 and 3 as separate hymns in his 1762 hymnal "Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2" (Bristol: Farley, 1762). He later revised and expanded these in his unpublished 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 20-21. 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 210.
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