Happy the man through special grace

Verse 1
Happy the man thro’ special grace
From old prejudging errors free,
Errors of birth, or sect, or place,
Habit, or nature’s bigotry,
Which with a blind mis-guided zeal
The heart of true believers fill.

Verse 2
O might I none but Jesus know,
Baptiz’d with pure celestial fire!
Saviour, thy fervent mind bestow,
And bless me with thine own desire,
That all thy perfect law may prove
Of life, and liberty, and love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And they are all zealous of the law.’—[Acts 21,] v. 20." This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 388.
Publishing: Public Domain