A time there is to live alone,
A time t’ appear in open day,
A time to make the vision known
And all the heavenly truth display:
But when to speak, and when forbear,
Who wait the motions of our Lord,
Taught by his Providence we are,
Led by his Spirit, and his word.
A time there is to live alone
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Jesus charged them saying, Tell the vision to no man.’—[Matt. 17,] v. 9.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 306.
Publishing: Public Domain