Moses, when Abraham’s God is near,
Will not presume his eyes to raise,
With reverence struck at Isaac’s Fear,
On Jacob’s Lord he dares not gaze:
But all who know the sprinkled Blood,
With humble confidence draw nigh,
With awe approach a pardning God;
Yet still they Abba Father cry.
Moses when Abraham’s God is near
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.’—[Acts 7,] v. 32.” 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 210.
Publishing: Public Domain