But let the holy Child Divine
Himself my Pattern be:
No innocence, O Lord, like thine
Can teach humility:
Free from the faults and blemishes
Which Adam’s offspring stain,
Thee, only Thee will I confess
A sinless child of man.
But let the holy Child Divine
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them.’—[Matt. 18,] v. 2.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 31.
Publishing: Public Domain