Less than the least in his own eyes,
Not of his gifts so largely given,
Not of his flight to paradise,
Or rapture to the highest heaven,
Doth Paul, the saint, the aged, boast,
Or witness his own perfect grace,
But when he feels his weakness most,
He glories in his helplesness.
Less than the least in his own eyes
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I will rather glory in my infirmities.”—[2 Cor.] xii. 9. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 57.
Publishing: Public Domain