From the close hypocrisy

Verse 1
From the close hypocrisy,
Lord, am I intirely free?
No; my selfishness and pride
Carefully from man I hide,
Act the pharisaic part,
Wear a veil upon my heart.

Verse 2
Yet I seldom blush or groan
That my heart to Thee is known,
That Thou see’st me as I am
Sink of filthiness and shame,
Seest me now without disguise,
Torture to thy purer eyes!

Verse 3
Thee that I at last may please,
Clothe me with thy righteousness:
Canst thou not an holy thing
Out of an unholy bring?
What thou dost require, impart,
Cleanse, by dwelling in my heart.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup.'—[Luke 11,] v. 39.” 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 207.
Publishing: Public Domain