The truth who from their heart obey
Rejoice as children of the light,
To stand confess’d in open day
And blameless walk before thy sight:
Their lives with scrutiny severe
They by thy word and Spirit prove,
That all their actions may appear
Wrought in the light and power of love.
The truth who from their heart obey
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He that do[e]th truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be manifest, that they are wrought in God.’—[John 3,] v. 21." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 224.
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