To men of their own knowledge proud

Verse 1
To men of their own knowledge proud,
In every age the truths of God
As riddles dark appear:
The things in parables conceal’d
From them, are to the poor reveal’d,
The simple and sincere.

Verse 2
The secrets of the Lord are known
To them who follow Christ alone,
And leave themselves behind,
To sinners who his cross embrace
He shews the mysteries of grace,
And tells them all his mind.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.’—[Mark 4,] v. 34.” 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 477.
Publishing: Public Domain