Thou great mysterious God unknown

1.

Thou great mysterious God unknown

Whose love hath gently led me on

E’en from my infant days

Mine inmost soul expose to view

And tell me, if I ever knew

Thy justifying grace

2.

If I have only known Thy fear

And followed with a heart sincere

Thy drawings from above

Now, now the further grace bestow

And let my sprinkled conscience know

Thy sweet forgiving love

3.

Short of Thy love I would not stop

A stranger to the gospel hope

The sense of sin forgiven

I would not, Lord, my soul deceive

Without the inward witness live

That antepast of heaven

4.

If now the Witness were in me

Would He not testify of Thee

In Jesus reconciled?

And should I not with faith draw nigh

And boldly Abba, Father! Cry

And know myself Thy child?

5.

Whate’er obstructs Thy pard’ning love

Or sin or righteousness, remove

Thy glory to display

Mine heart of unbelief convince

And now absolve me from my sins

And take them all away

6.

Father, in me reveal Thy Son

And to my inmost soul make known

How merciful Thou art

The secret of Thy love reveal

And by Thine hall’wing Spirit dwell

For ever in my heart