Such as we are, without disguise,
Or colouring we appear,
O’erwhelm’d, before thy glorious eyes,
With guilty shame and fear:
Helpless, and in our trespasses,
Most gracious God, receive,
And us who thus our sins confess,
For Jesu’s sake forgive.
Such as we are, without disguise
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “We are before thee in our trespasses.”—[Ezra] ix. 15. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 222.
Publishing: Public Domain