John 9:39: For judgment I am come into this world, &c

Righteous Lord Thy judgments are!
When men their misery own,
Thou Thy mercy dost declare,
And make Thy Godhead known:
Foolish, ignorant, and blind,
We first our unbelief confess,
Then the light from heaven we find,
The Lord our Righteousness.

But the wise, and learn'd, and proud
Refuse themselves to' abase.
Scorn to' admit their fall from God,
And total want of grace;
Justly are they left by Thee,
Who still against Thy Spirit fight;
Left in their obscurity,
Or blinded by the light.
1933, Some of the Pharisees... said, Are ive blind also? — ix 40.
Of their ignorance they show
The most undoubted sign.
Dark as hell who will not know
Their need of light Divine;
Pharisees., untaught by grace.
Yet learned in their own esteem;
None of all our blindfold race
Is half so blind as ihcm.