Ignorance in which ye dwell

Verse 1
Ignorance in which ye dwell
Excusable had been,
Were it quite invincible
It is not wilful sin:
But your knowledge ye assert,
And cast your helps and means aside;
Hence the veil is on your heart,
And all your faith is pride.

Verse 2
Would you own with humble grief
Your want of light and love,
Christ would help your unbelief,
And all your guilt remove:
But with arrogant disdain
Your blindness if ye still deny,
Infidels ye must remain,
Till in your sins ye die.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say We sin; therefore your sin remaineth.’—[John 9,] v. 41." 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 453.
Publishing: Public Domain