Brought before kings, he stands

Verse 1
Brought before kings he stands,
A greater king than they,
Who o’re sea-sever’d lands
Extend their awful sway,
The saint arraign’d by faith we own
Greater than Cesar on his throne.

Verse 2
A king to God above
He bears his image here,
The majesty of Love,
The Saviour’s character,
Superior dignity maintains,
And by the cross of Jesus reigns.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Paul was brought forth.’—[Acts 25, v. 23.]" This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 421.
Publishing: Public Domain