Happy the man, who eyes receives
To see his smiling Lord,
Who hears the voice of God, and lives
By Jesus quickning word:
This happiness with Christ is ours,
Who know our sins forgiven,
Partakers of the Spirit’s powers,
Inspir’d with present heaven.
Happy the man who eyes receives
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.’—[Matt. 13,] v. 16.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 270.
Publishing: Public Domain