Our Prince and friend enthron’d above
Did thus his zeal for man express,
He stript himself of all but love,
To cloathe us with his righteousness:
Kinder than Jonathan, he wore
The rags of our humanity,
Self-emptied, sorrowful, and poor,
That all my God might dwell in me.
Our Prince and Friend enthron’d above
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Jonathan stripped himself of the robe which was upon him, and gave it to David.”—[I. Sam.] xviii. 4. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 160.
Publishing: Public Domain