Thou great mysterious God unknown

Thou great mysterious God unknown.  Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). From Hymns for those that seek, and those that have Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ (Bristol, 1747), where it had eight 6-line stanzas. It was not included by John Wesley* in A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780) but a text of six stanzas was added to one of the Supplements before 1831. The omitted stanzas were 5 and 6 of the 1747 text: Ah never let thy Servant rest, Till of my part in Christ possest     I on thy Mercy feed, Unworthy of the Crumbs that fall, Yet rais’d by Him who dy’d for All     To eat the Children’s Bread. O may I cast my Rags aside, My Filthy Rags of Virtuous...

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