Passing through life in every stage

Verse 1
Passing thro’ life in every stage,
Our childhood, and maturer age
Upon Himself He took,
Every estate to sanctify,
And save whoe’er to Him apply,
And for his blessing look.

Verse 2
Our Model, the meek Son of man
Did here the characters sustain
Of youth and infancy:
Old age alone did not become
The God who did my flesh assume,
And died a Lamb for me.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them.’—Matt. 19, v. 13.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 323.
Publishing: Public Domain