Yes, by faith’s enlightened eye

Yes, by faith’s inlighten’d eye
We corruption’s fountain see,
For relief to Christ apply,
Bring our evil hearts to Thee:
Jesus, Thou to us hast shown
All this filth of inbred sin:
Heal the plague thro’ which we groan,
Cleanse the house by entring in.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Do ye not perceive that whatsoever thing from without entreth into the man, cannot defile him, Because it entreth not into his heart.’—[Mark 7,] v. 18, 19.” 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 5.
Publishing: Public Domain