While we of His mysteries

Verse 1
While we of his mysteries
Discourse with humble fear,
In the midst of us He is,
And Jesus will appear,
Will remove our sad distress,
By mercy’s comfortable voice,
Speak the words of life and peace,
And bid our hearts rejoice.

Verse 2
Lord, Thou dost thy followers seek,
Where’er dispers’d they stray,
Chear the faint, confirm the weak,
And by thy presence stay;
Thee the Shepherd good and kind
Before our eyes of faith we see,
Peace the seal of pardon find,
And heavenly joy in Thee.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘As they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.'—[Luke 24,] v. 36.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 312.
Publishing: Public Domain