Virtue by few embraced

Virtue by few embrac’d
We find in Christ alone,
Betwixt two opp’osite vices plac’d
Essential Virtue own:
And still the Truth is seen
With error by its side;
And Christians among sinful men
Are daily crucified.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They crucified two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.’—[John 19,] v. 18." 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 85.
Publishing: Public Domain