The heavenly light to all appeared

Verse 1
The heavenly light to all appear’d,
The sound, but not the voice, they heard
With unavailing fright:
Sounds indistinct cannot convert;
And stubborn unbelief of heart
Resists an outward light.

Verse 2
To save an infidel from sin,
Eternal Light, appear within
My heart’s obscurity,
Display the Father in thy face,
And by the Spirit of thy grace
Apply thy word to me.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.’—[Acts 22,] v. 9." This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 395.
Publishing: Public Domain