Our ignorance ’tis Thine to show,
And make us sensible
We never can the mysteries know
Which Thou dost not reveal:
All scripture, hence we plainly see
By inspiration given,
And wait, O Lord, till taught of Thee
We teach the way to heaven.
Our ignorance ’tis Thine to show
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?’—[Mark 4,] v. 13.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 473.
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