The mystery so long unknown
Is manifest in Christ alone:
The fulness of the deity
Resides eternally in thee:
Jesus, to me the secret tell,
Thyself, the gift unspeakable,
The hope of heavenly bliss impart,
The glorious earnest in my heart.
The mystery so long unknown
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”—[Col.] i. 27. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 84.
Publishing: Public Domain