Thou great Unsearchable, Unknown

Verse 1
Thou great Unsearchable Unknown
How shall I thy command fulfil,
Or force my faithless heart of stone
To bow obedient to thy will?

Verse 2
Unless the stony Thou remove,
Unless Thou show me Who Thou art,
Tis quite impossible to love
The Lord my God with all my heart.

Verse 3
Come then, Jehovah crucified,
The God supreme in Christ reveal’d,
And thro’ thy sacred blood applied
My soul shall feel its pardon seal’d:

Verse 4
Shall truly by thy Spirit know
The God that purg’d my sinful stain,
And pay the mighty debt I owe,
And love my loving Lord again.

Verse 5
A few more days imprison’d here,
For this, and only this I live,
Till Thou the slaughter’d Lamb appear,
Till Thou the pure affection give,

Verse 6
(That purchase of thy dying groan,
That boundless charity divine)
And take possession of thy own,
And seal my heart for ever thine.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart.’—[Deut. 6:5].” This hymn was included in a manuscript titled “MS Hymns for Love.” This manuscript is held by the Methodist Archive and Research Centre of the John Rylands Library at The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/578, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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. 8 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 371.
Publishing: Public Domain