Would we attend the Voice Divine,
Jehovah’s gracious counsels know,
We must the things of earth resign,
Put off thy thoughts of all below,
With deep humility draw near,
Call’d by his Spirit from above
The great redeeming God to hear,
Who turns our terror into love.
Would we attend the voice divine
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Put off thy shoes from thy feet.’—[Acts 7,] v. 33.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 210.
Publishing: Public Domain