The schools of scribes, and courts of kings,
The learn’d and great He passes by,
Chuses the weak and foolish things,
His truth and grace to testify;
Plain, simple men his call endues
With power and wisdom from above;
And such He still vouchsafes to use,
Who nothing know but Jesus’ love.
The schools of scribes, and courts of kings
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Jesus saw two brethren casting a net into the sea.’—[Matt. 4,] v. 18.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 157.
Publishing: Public Domain