We ask a soul no longer

We ask a soul no longer blind,
Who chas’d the darkness of thy mind,
Open’d thine inward eyes to see
That all on earth is vanity,
To see the true celestial road,
And fix thy faithful heart on God?

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened.’—[John 9,] v. 10." 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 442.
Publishing: Public Domain