Happy man with princes bred
Who knows his gracious day,
From a court’s temptations freed,
And clean escap’d away!
With the choice of Moses blest,
The world he doth for Christ forego,
Suffers with his saints distrest,
And serves his church below.
Happy man with princes bred
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘There were in the church certain teachers; Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch &c.’—[Acts 13,] v. 1.” 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 273.
Publishing: Public Domain