Jesus, King of Righteousness

Verse 1
Jesus, King of righteousness,
Thy people taught by Thee,
Bold before the world confess
Thy royal dignity:
Born for this alone we are,
And in thy testimony join,
By our words and lives declare
The power of truth Divine.

Verse 2
Thee, the Truth we testify
Which makes us free from sin,
God descended from the sky
And manifest within;
Thee our Life in life and death
Our real Holiness we praise,
Publish with our latest breath
The Truth of love and grace.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Thou sayest, I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I might bear witness unto the truth.’—[John 18,] v. 37." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 76.
Publishing: Public Domain