But can it be that I should prove. C. Wesley. [In Temptation] Published in the Wesley Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749, No. 112, in 6 stanzas of 6 lines (Poetical Works, iv., p. 479). It was well known in the old Wesleyan Hymn Book, but is omitted from the Methodist Hymn Book, 1904, except stanzas iv.-vi., which are embodied in "Light of the world, Thy beams I bless” q.v.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)