How mean He still on earth appears

Verse 1
How mean He still on earth appears,
How poor his slighted worshippers!
The world our humble Lord despise,
The rich, and great, the learn’d and wise;
They hate the strictness of his laws,
They stumble at his bleeding cross,
To gain his kingdom in the sky
Like him they will not live and die.

Verse 2
O may I never, never be
Offended at thy words or Thee!
Jesus, the loving faith impart,
And lo, I give thee all my heart,
Thee boldly before men confess,
A sinner sav’d by richest grace,
And unto death obedient prove
The blessedness of faithful love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me.’—[Matt. 11,] v. 6.” Wesley originally published an earlier version of verse 2 in his 1762 hymnal "Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2" (Bristol: Farley, 1762). He later revised and expanded it in his unpublished 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.”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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 246.

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