O might I, like Jesus, be

Verse 1
O might I, like Jesus, be
Foe to guile and secrecy,
Walk as always in his sight,
Free and open as the light,
Boldly to mankind appeal,
All the truth of God reveal!

Verse 2
Lord, that I to friend and foe
May thy utmost counsel show,
To thy messenger impart
The true nobleness of heart,
The unfeign’d simplicity
The pure mind, which was in Thee.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “In secret have I said nothing.”—[John] xviii. 20. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Wesley later altered and expanded this hymn in his 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 71.
Publishing: Public Domain