None that is not taught by Thee

Verse 1
None that is not taught by Thee
Can thine oracles declare,
Thou hast, Lord, the sacred key,
Thou, thine own Interpreter,
Dost by inspiration give
The true sense by God design’d,
Teach us rightly to conceive
All thy gracious Father’s mind.

Verse 2
Open then our minds and hearts
Thy own word to understand,
Write it in our inward parts
Every promise and command,
All thine acceptable will
Let us by thy Spirit prove,
Thro’ his energy fulfil
The whole counsel of thy love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures.’—[Luke 24,] v. 45.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 313.
Publishing: Public Domain