A prince who bears the Christian name

Verse 1
A prince who bears the Christian name
Should flattery with abhorrence shun,
But praises above all disclaim
And honours due to God alone,
Nor dare to rival the Most-High,
Or the great King of kings defy.

Verse 2
The sole immortal Potentate,
His dread prerogative maintains,
Inthron’d in everlasting state
And jealous of his glory reigns
While monarchs mingle with the rest,
And make the worms a royal feast.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The people gave a shout saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.’—[Acts 12,] v. 22.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 348-49.
Publishing: Public Domain