With milk Thou dost the infants feed

Verse 1
With milk Thou dost the infants feed,
Meat to the strong believers give,
In season due, as each hath need,
As each is able to receive;
Thou sow’st the seeds of truth sublime
In the dark heart of feeble man,
Thou know’st thine own appointed time
Thine own mysterious work t’ explain.

Verse 2
Those many things at first unknown,
Thy Spirit shews us where to find,
Not by tradition handed down,
By men corrupt, deceitful, blind:
The acts by thine Apostles wrought
Repeating on our hearts He seals,
The truths in their Epistles taught,
And in the mystic book reveals.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.’—[John 16,] v. 12." This hymn appears in the 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 39.
Publishing: Public Domain