Great God incomprehensible

Verse 1
Great God incomprehensible,
Unless Thou dost thyself reveal
Thee we can never know,
Can never see without thy light,
Or how to worship Thee aright,
Or what to Thee we owe.

Verse 2
But Thou hast told us in thy word,
And certified thro’ Christ the Lord
That Thou our Father art
Thy Spirit doth thy mind explain
And cries to every soul of man
“My child, give me thy heart![”]

Verse 3
I woud; but want the power to give
Unless I previously receive
The blessing from above,
The wisdom peaceable and pure,
The knowlege of salvation sure,
The faith that works by love.

Verse 4
Help me with eyes of faith to see
Jehovah bleeding on the tree
For guilty worms t’ atone,
Thy love for all mankind to buy,
Th’ eternal God, the Lord most high,
Thy Fellow, and thy Son.

Verse 5
Thy dying love in me reveal,
And when the sprinkled blood I feel
I know Thee who Thou art,
My loving Father and my God,
I thank Thee for the grace bestow’d,
I give Thee all my heart.

Hymnal/Album: This hymn was included in a manuscript titled “MS Hymns for Love.” This manuscript is held by the Methodist Archive and Research Centre of the John Rylands Library at The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/578, 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. 8 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 375.
Publishing: Public Domain