Accepting what the poor bestow’d,
He spurn’d the riches of the great,
To shew the world, a man of God
Trampling as dirt beneath his feet
The things they ignorantly prize,
Lays up his treasure in the skies.
Accepting what the poor bestow’d
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I will receive none.”—[II. Kings] v. 16. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 193.
Publishing: Public Domain