Yet did he not his offspring leave

Verse 1
Yet did he not his offspring leave,
But frequent proofs vouchsaf’d to give
Of his Paternal love,
With fruitful showers of timely rain
With bread that chears the heart of man
He bless’d us from above.

Verse 2
Whate’er we have ’twas God bestow’d,
The power to taste our pleasant food
His bounteous mercy gave;
We all injoy thro’ Him alone:
Who gave at last his only Son
Our sinful souls to save.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good &c.’—[Acts 14,] v. 17.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 363.
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