An hundred pence! how small the debt
(How slight the injury,)
Against ten thousand talents set
But now remitted me!
The pardon I from Christ receive
Still may I bear in mind,
And gladly for his sake forgive
The wrongs of all mankind.
An hundred pence! how small the debt
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The same servant went out, and found one of his fellow-servants which owed him an hundred pence.’—[Matt. 18,] v. 28.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 320.
Publishing: Public Domain