We tell the proud indignant race
That heaven is due to none,
The source and principle of grace
Is hid in God alone:
The number of his chosen here
We must insist is small;
Yet still the God of love we clear,
Who offers life to all.
We tell the proud indignant race
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When they heard these things, they were filled with wrath.'—[Luke 4,] v. 28.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 90.
Publishing: Public Domain