Would God, his greatness to display,
Impracticable laws enjoin,
Laws which we never can obey
With all the helps of grace divine?
Nay, thou most gracious Lord and just,
We know thy sanctifying will,
And thro’ thy Spirit’s power we trust
All thy commandments to fulfil.
Would God, His greatness to display
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “God spake all these words.”—[Exod.] xx. 1. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 51.
Publishing: Public Domain