Thy own word I bring to Thee
(Left with my great Lord alone):
Scatter the obscurity,
Make the hidden meaning known:
Dark, Thou knowst I am, and blind;
Let thy Spirit’s grace bestow’d
Lead me into all the mind,
All the mysteries of God.
Thy own word I bring to Thee
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When he was alone, they asked of him the parable.’—[Mark 4,] v. 10.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 472.
Publishing: Public Domain