Appear, great God, appear to me,
That by myself abhor’d,
Asham’d I may forever be
Before my glorious Lord:
That only sight can pride abase,
Can force me to submit,
Which makes archangels veil their face,
And tremble at thy feet?
Appear, great God, appear to me
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Wherefore I abhor myself.”—[Job] xlii. 6. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 271.
Publishing: Public Domain