See the true evangelic child

Verse 1
See the true evangelic child,
So ready at the Father’s call!
Harmless, and tractable, and mild,
Placid, benevolent to all,
Nor wealth, or honour he desires,
Nor proudly to be first aspires.

Verse 2
Directed by the Father’s will
What to eschew, and what approve,
Simple, and ignorant of ill,
He speaks with unreflecting love,
A stranger to the colouring art;
And truth flows genuin from his heart.

Verse 3
This is the soul divinely great,
To spotless innocence restor’d,
Establish’d in his first estate,
Born in the image of his Lord,
With Jesus’ little ones to rise,
And reign immortal in the skies.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Whosoever shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.’—[Matt. 18,] v. 4.” 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 314.
Publishing: Public Domain