Humble and wise, they offer not

Verse 1
Humble and wise, they offer not
Before the judgment-seat t’ appear,
But yield, and let themselves be brought
Superior both to wrath and fear,
Fill’d with the Spirit of God supreme,
Who first o’recame the world for them.

Verse 2
Fill’d with the same almighty grace
Our foes we neither seek, nor shun,
Let them at their tribunals place
We there our Lord and Pattern own,
And glory his reproach to share
And stand with Jesus at the bar.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When they had brought them, they set them before the council.’—[Acts 5,] v. 27.” 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 189.
Publishing: Public Domain