Great in the field of battle, great
The monarch on his judgment-seat
His dread authority maintains,
And conscious of his grandeur reigns:
But before him who rules the skies,
Humbled as in the dust he lies,
Dares, in the meanest services,
The least of all himself confess.
Great in the field of battle, great
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I will be base in mine own sight.”—[II. Sam.] vi. 22. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 167.
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