Who to those gracious words of thine

Verse 1
Who to those gracious words of thine
Might sinless their assent refuse,
Soon as they saw the works Divine,
Condemn’d, and left without excuse,
Their wilful unbelief they shew’d,
And justly perish’d in their blood.

Verse 2
The world may thus our words deny
Who pardon and his Spirit claim,
But when our actions testify,
When all our lives declare the same,
They must th’ authentic truth receive,
Thy real witnesses believe.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin.”—[John] xv. 24. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Wesley later altered this hymn in his 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 32.
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