Through vanity I will not tell

Verse 1
Thro’ vanity I will not tell,
Nor yet thro’ fear the truth conceal,
But own in love’s simplicity
The things my God hath done for me:
He of his own accord past by
And saw the blind with pitying eye.

Verse 2
The Man, the God they Jesus call,
My Saviour, and the Friend of all
Anointed with his grace my soul,
And said Go, wash in Siloam’s pool;
Obedient to his Spirit’s word,
I went; I wash’d; and saw my Lord.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus, made clay &c.’—[John 9,] v. 11." 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 442.
Publishing: Public Domain