The secret of the Lord is known
To saints whose hearts are kept above
Who cleave by faith to Christ alone,
And humbly fear, because they love;
Jesus on whom their souls rely,
Their every prayer and sigh receives;
Nothing he can to such deny,
And more than all they ask he gives.
The secret of the Lord is known
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Peter beckoned to him, that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake.’—[John 13,] v. 24." 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 507.
Publishing: Public Domain