Conviction is from God

Conviction is from God:
Since first the world began
Was never man who knew or shew’d
The sinfulness of man:
The Spirit of truth alone
Of unbelief reproves,
He makes the human darkness known,
And by his light removes.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Since the world began was it not known that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.’—[John 9,] v. 32." 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 450.
Publishing: Public Domain