Proclaiming my own holiness,
Myself if perfect I esteem,
And others far beneath in grace;
Myself I must prefer to them.
Proclaiming my own holiness
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “In lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.”—[Phil.] ii. 3. 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 78.
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