A teacher sent from God designs

Verse 1
A teacher sent from God, designs
Jehovah’s glory, and declines
Whate’er might raise his own;
T’ exalt his heavenly Lord he seeks,
In honour of his Master speaks,
And lives for God alone.

Verse 2
O that I thus with upright aim
May magnify my Saviour’s name,
And only seek his praise,
My truth and faithfulness approve,
Sav’d by the power of perfect love
From all unrighteousness!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.’—[John 7,] 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 403.
Publishing: Public Domain