Who Thy Deity confess

Who thy Deity confess
We must thy love adore,
Love that did so long suppress
Thy wisdom and thy power:
Wondring at our God conceal’d,
We rest in thy obscurity,
Till by sovereign grace compel’d
T’ appear, and speak for Thee.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘All that heard him were astonished at his understanding, and answers.’—[Luke 2,] v. 47.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 123.
Publishing: Public Domain