Piety respect inspires;
But rarely in the great:
Oft the multitude admires,
And longs to imitate:
Ready for converting grace
They thus evince the work begun,
Who in others love and praise
The power of faith unknown.
Piety respect inspires
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And of the rest durst no man join himself unto them: and the people magnified them.’—[Acts 5,] v. 13.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 185.
Publishing: Public Domain