With meekness and majestic grace

Verse 1
With meekness and majestic grace
Jesus their hellish charge denies:
His word to the blaspheming race
Becomes the Lord of earth and skies!
Silent so oft He answers here,
His Father’s greatness to maintain,
Stampt with Jehovah’s character,
And God’s Ambassador to man!

Verse 2
His minister the World should bear,
Their general calumnies despise:
But when to fix the charge they dare,
Tax’d with the thing his soul defies
The man whom Christ did truly send
Must then throw off the crime abhor’d,
And while he doth himself defend
He guards the honour of his Lord.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.’—[John 8,] v. 49." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 433.
Publishing: Public Domain