His understanding’s eyes,
His mouth is open’d too,
The blind is brought divinely wise
A way he never knew;
With reasons strong and clear
With wisdom not his own
He proves’—the hand of God is here
And God the work hath done.
His understanding’s eyes
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Ye know not whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.’—[John 9,] v. 30." 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 449.
Publishing: Public Domain