Who every thought and motion knows

Verse 1
Who every thought and motion knows
Of every heart himself hath made,
The day, the hour, the moment shows
When Peter thro’ his pride betray’d
Shall fall: by basest perjury
To warn, and shake, and stablish me.

Verse 2
Omniscient God of love, impart
A ray of thine unerring light,
That seeing my own treacherous heart,
And trembling at the horrid sight,
I may to my Supporter run,
And humbly stand by faith alone.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto you, that this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.’—[Mark 14,] v. 30.” 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 74.
Publishing: Public Domain