While through the sea of faith they past

Verse 1
While thro’ the sea by faith they past,
The sea retir’d at God’s command,
The waves shrink back with trembling haste,
The waves a chrystal barrier stand.

Verse 2
Th’ Egyptians daring to pursue,
With horror found a wat’ry grave,
Too late their want of faith they knew,
And sunk beneath th’ o’erwhelming wave.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “The Life of Faith, Exemplified in the Eleventh Chapter of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Hebrews.” Introduced in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740), published by John and Charles Wesley (London: William Strahan, 1740). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 1 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868), page 218.
Publishing: Public Domain