Thou who my utmost Saviour art,
Reveal thyself within,
Thine only presence in my heart
Can take away my sin:
But when thou art discover’d here,
It can no longer stay,
It must give place, and disappear,
And vanish quite away.
Thou who my utmost Saviour art
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “He was manifested to take away our sins.”—1 John iii. 5. 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 200.
Publishing: Public Domain