God who out of Christ adore

God who out of Christ adore,
Adore they know not what,
Serve him without faith or power
For yet they know him not;
Blind, and void of filial fear,
Till Christ their unbelief remove,
Then they see, confess, revere,
And praise the God they love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Ye worship ye know not what.’—[John 4,] v. 22." 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 228.
Publishing: Public Domain