Unless Thy Spirit Thy truth reveal

Verse 1
Unless thy Spirit the truth reveal
That Thou the Lord Jehovah art,
And give me faithfully to feel
Thy Godhead streaming thro’ my heart,
Thee, Jesus, Thee I cannot know
God over all, made flesh below.

Verse 2
But Thou, expiring on the tree,
As very man, as very God,
Hast bought the Holy Ghost for me
T’ apply, and witness with the blood,
And tell this bounding heart of mine,
The blood of sprinkling is Divine.

Verse 3
Fill’d with the Spirit of faith and love,
The God supreme I Thee adore,
The one true God who reigns above,
(But stain’d the cross with heavenly gore)
Who was from all eternity
Who lives, for ever lives, in me.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘No one can say Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.’—[1 Cor.] 12:3.” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” 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 1977/576, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. The entire hymn was published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 464-65. The first two verses were published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 36.
Publishing: Public Domain