Glory doth to Thee belong,
Tho’ on that shameful tree,
Just it is that every tongue
Should give the power to Thee:
Lord, we own the kingdom thine,
The kingdom of a dying God,
Won by agonies Divine,
And bought with all thy blood!
Glory doth to Thee belong
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘This is the King of the Jews!’—[Luke 23,] v. 38.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 203.
Publishing: Public Domain