Truth divine must not be hid

Truth divine must not be hid:
Truth doth all to Christ invite:
Who the scripture’s use forbid
Wrong the children of the light.
O that all mankind might hear,
Gospel-light with Jesus see!
Jesus, to the world appear,
Shew the way to heaven in Thee.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘No man when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place ... but on a candlestick &c.'—[Luke 11,] 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 131.
Publishing: Public Domain