Omniscient God, to man declare

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.

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