Omniscient God, to man declare
His heart unsearchable,
And shew us, as our souls can bear,
A glimpse of our own hell,
That glad out of ourselves to run,
And take the blessing given,
We in thy manifested Son
May find our present heaven.
Omniscient God, to man declare
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Who can know it? I the Lord.”—Jer. xvii. 9, 10. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 27.
Publishing: Public Domain