Thou seest the ground of every heart,
Thou its most secret plague canst heal;
Physician of mankind Thou art;
Bid the proud reasoners be still,
Pity the men thro’ envy blind,
And cure the darkness of their mind.
Thou seest the ground of every heart
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts?'—[Luke 5,] v. 22.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 95.
Publishing: Public Domain