While, as a Jew, thy word I read,
The veil over my heart is spread;
The veil of unbelief remove,
And shew me, Lord, thy pardning love,
That when my Lord I know, and see,
No longer by rejecting Thee,
But by obedience to thy will
I may the prophecies fulfil.
While, as a Jew, thy word I read
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets, which are read every sabbath-day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.’—[Acts 13,] v. 27.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 354.
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