How should Israel’s sons commend

Verse 1
How should Israel’s sons commend
His kind humility,
Who so greatly did descend
His brethren poor to see?
O, with what stupendous love
Did Christ his heavenly bliss forsake,
Leave his Father’s throne above,
Our nature to partake!

Verse 2
Only love thy heart inclin’d,
In majesty supream,
Brought Thee, Saviour of mankind,
Thine Israel to redeem:
Gaul’d by sin and Satan’s chain
For us once more the heavens bow,
Jesus, visit us again,
And save thy people now.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘It came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.’—[Acts 7,] v. 23.” 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 207.
Publishing: Public Domain