Thy wisdom all my folly sees,
My faults are all before thine eyes,
Mine heart, and inward wickedness;
Such as I am, without disguise,
A sinner to thy bosom take,
Not for my own, but Jesu’s sake.
Thy wisdom all my folly sees
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “God, thou knowest my simpleness, and my faults are not hid from thee.”—[Psalm] lxix. 5. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 305.
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