Conscience, thou voice of God in man

Verse 1
Conscience, thou voice of God in man,
Accus’d by thee, we strive in vain
Thy clamours to suppres:
A thousand witnesses thou art;
And God is greater than our heart,
And all its evils sees.

Verse 2
Thy voice outspeaks, and strikes us dumb,
When greater sinners we presume
With rigour to condemn,
It makes us hide our guilty head,
Who vilest profligates upbraid,
And judge ourselves in them.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And which heard it, went out.’—[John 8,] v. 9." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 416.
Publishing: Public Domain