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Luke 24:41: They yet believed not for joy
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 11 (1871)
Sometimes the faith, at once bestow'd,
Unfolds itself by slow degrees,
And thus the heavenly gift of God
More clearly the receiver sees,
Convinced his grace is not his own,
Glory he gives to God alone.
Fear, joy, astonishment oppose
The truth of Christ to life restored.
But these and every mountain flows
Before the presence of the Lord,
When Jesus His own Spirit imparts
To' attest His rising in our hearts.
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Wesley, Charles. “Luke 24:41: They yet believed not for joy.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5439/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Luke 24:41: They yet believed not for joy.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5439/.
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