The light reflected from his face,
Not Jesus in the light they view’d:
The inward evidence of grace,
This only can our fears exclude,
And raise our souls out of the dust,
And shew the God in whom we trust.
The light reflected from his face
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And them which journeyed with me &c.’—[Acts 26,] v. 13." 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 427.
Publishing: Public Domain