Who ever of a mountain heard
By faith remov’d into the sea?
The literal miracle absurd:
The truth my Lord hath wrought in me:
Saviour, the sin I serv’d and lov’d
Thou hast commanded to depart,
Far from my soul the guilt remov’d,
And cast the power out of my heart.
Who ever of a mountain heard
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed &c.’—[Matt. 21,] v. 21.” This hymn appears in the 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 342.
Publishing: Public Domain