A sinner’s blindfold will
Without the light of grace
Cannot the mind of Christ fulfil,
Or work his righteousness:
Whom fiery zeal inflames,
Push’d on by nature’s power,
To serve his God the more he aims,
He vexes him the more.
A sinner’s blindfold will
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘One of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.’—[Luke 22,] v. 50.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 197.
Publishing: Public Domain