To think more highly than you ought

Verse 1
To think more highly than you ought
Of your own gifts or grace,
Is it a crime, a real fault,
Or perfect harmlesness?
“Tis nature’s innocent mistake,
“Which God will ne’er reprove,
“The chief of saints yourself to make,
“And perfected in love.

Verse 2
“Yourself or good, or perfect call
“There’s no offence in this:”
Enthusiasts count the error small,
You only think amiss:
Call yourselves wholly sanctified,
No evil still they see,
No sin in what begins with pride,
And ends in blasphemy.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I say to every man, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think.’—[Rom.] 12:3.” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” 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 1977/576, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 258.
Publishing: Public Domain