Thee I cannot seek in vain

Verse 1
Thee I cannot seek in vain
With resign’d simplicity:
Thou hast various ways t’ explain
What thy love designs for me:
Patient if I wait to know,
Thou thy purpose shalt reveal,
Teach me when and where to go,
Manifest thy perfect will.

Verse 2
If Thou thwart my best design,
My submission, Lord, approve;
Then by clearest light divine
Shew th’ intention of thy love,
Then the gospel-door display,
Fill’d with active knowing zeal
Send me all thy words t’ obey,
All thy counsels to fulfil.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Come over to Macedonia, and help us.’—[Acts 16,] 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 372.
Publishing: Public Domain