Till Jesus casts the veil aside

Verse 1
Till Jesus casts the veil aside,
And man to man explains,
What depths of self-presuming pride
The sinner’s heart contains!
He boasts his strength of faith and zeal,
While to himself unknown,
And will not, but by falling, feel
He cannot stand alone.

Verse 2
Peter self-confident, sincere,
Before his faith was prov’d,
Was sure he lov’d his Master dear,
More than his life he lov’d:
But when the tempting foe assail’d,
At a weak woman’s word
He sunk: the love of life prevail’d,
And he abjur’d his Lord.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Lord, I am ready to go with thee both into prison, and to death.'—[Luke 22,] v. 33.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 288.
Publishing: Public Domain