The Scriptures never can be known

Verse 1
The scriptures never can be known
But thro’ the power of God alone;
The Spirit of power, and truth, and love
Doth first our unbelief remove,
Discovers the deep things of God,
And shews to me my Saviour’s blood.

Verse 2
My Father’s mind I then perceive,
And quicken’d by his Spirit live;
The Spirit doth his word reveal,
The Spirit teaches me his will,
And while into all truth he guides,
My Teacher in my heart resides.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures neither the power of God?’—Mark 12, v. 24.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/574, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 55.
Publishing: Public Domain