A conscious unbeliever, I
Perceive my blindness now,
And at the feet of Jesus lie,
Inquiring, Who art Thou?
Thy sin-convincing voice I hear;
But tell me Who Thou art,
And now, my Lord, and God, appear,
In mercy, to my heart.
A conscious unbeliever, I
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I answered, Who art Thou, Lord?’—[Acts 22,] v. 8." This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 408.
Publishing: Public Domain