Essence incomprehensible,
Jehovah, who can know,
Who was, and is, and comes to dwell
With all his saints below!
Then the whole world shall be restor’d
And bow to Jesu’s name,
Fill’d with the knowledge of the Lord,
The infinite I AM.
Essence incomprehensible
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “They shall all know me.”—[Jer.] xxxi. 34. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 42.
Publishing: Public Domain