Will a meek, modest man of God
Rejoice to make the fairest shew,
Expose his graces to the croud,
And charm the dazled world below?
Or rather take with jealous fear
The veil of true humility,
And glorious as he is appear
To none but that all-seeing eye?
Will a meek, modest man of God
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “When Moses went in before the Lord, he took the veil off.”—[Exod.] xxxiv. 34. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 57.
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