The great Invisible, unknown

Verse 1
The great Invisible, unknown
In darkness inaccessible,
Jehovah’s co-eternal Son,
Thou only dost to man reveal,
And thro’ the fountain of thy blood
Bring back a rebel world to God.

Verse 2
Author of our salvation Thee,
Author of faith our hearts confess,
Thro’ thy atonement on the tree
Bold we approach the throne of grace,
And find, thy Name to sinners given
Saves us from hell, and lifts to heaven.

Verse 3
Thy Father’s mind thro’ Thee we know,
His image with his grace retrieve,
To Him we in thy footsteps go,
His hidden life in Thee we live,
And led by thy good Spirit, remove
To see his open face above.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.’—[John 14,] v. 6." This hymn appears in the 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 7.
Publishing: Public Domain