An humble saint will never praise

An humble saint will never praise
Himself, or glory in his grace;
But lives to magnify
His Saviour by all heaven ador’d,
But dies rejoicing in the Lord,
Exalting the Most-high.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.’—[Luke 1,] v. 46, 47.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 110.
Publishing: Public Domain