Sinners to the shades may run

Sinners to the shades may run,
Hide them from the sight of men,
But the Judge they cannot shun,
All their thoughts by him are seen;
Dark and light’s to him the same;
He will all their hearts reveal,
Drag them out to open shame,
Chase the hypocrites to hell.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed.'—[Luke 12,] v. 2.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 134.
Publishing: Public Domain