Be double honour paid
To man belov’d of God,
Man in his Maker’s image made,
And purchas’d by his blood:
Mark’d with thy character,
Lord, every soul is thine,
And I in all mankind revere
Their Ransomer divine.
Be double honour paid
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Honour all men.”—[1 Pet.] ii. 17. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 180.
Publishing: Public Domain