O for that just humility,
Which gives whate’er is good to thee,
Teaches thine instrument to cry
The Lord he doth the work, not I!
Take all the glory of thy grace,
Take all the everlasting praise!
O for that just humility
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Yet not I, but the grace.”—[1 Cor.] xv. 10. 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 38.
Publishing: Public Domain