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Mark 1:21: Doth Christ the passive people lead
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 10 (1871)
Doth Christ the passive people lead
By instincts or impressions blind?
Or doth He gradually proceed
To' inform and teach the reasoning mind?
The outward knowledge of His word
His Spirit's inAvard light afford!
From Him His ministers should learn
To' instruct the unenlighten'd crowd,
To show poor souls their first concern,
To' explain the oracles of God
And lead them on in all His w-ays
To search His word and seek His grace.
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Wesley, Charles. “Mark 1:21: Doth Christ the passive people lead.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4647/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Mark 1:21: Doth Christ the passive people lead.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4647/.
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