Great God, unknown, invisible,
Appear, my confidence t’ abase,
To make me all my vileness feel,
And blush at my own righteousness:
Thy glorious face in Christ display,
And silenc’d by thy mercy’s power,
My hand upon my mouth I lay,
And never boast, or murmur more.
Great God, unknown, invisible
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Behold I am vile, what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.”—[Job] xl. 4. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 271.
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