For our abuse of sight t’ atone,
Jesus submits to lose his own,
His bandag’d eyes have open’d ours,
And blest our soul with visual powers;
And lo, I now my Saviour see,
Whose blindness bought the grace for me,
Points out the bright celestial prize,
And shows my way to paradise.
For our abuse of sight t’ atone
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When they had blindfolded, they struck him on the face, saying, Prophesy, who it is that smote thee?'—[Luke 22,] v. 64.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 198.
Publishing: Public Domain