The great, th’ ambitious, and the proud

Verse 1
The great, th’ ambitious, and the proud
Still, like the world’s usurping god,
Our adoration claim;
But who our heavenly King obey,
Worship divine to Christ we pay,
And bow to Jesus name.

Verse 2
Yet ah! how few his kingdom own,
Worship and serve the Lord alone
As angels do above!
That all may only Thee adore,
Jesus, on all bestow the power
Thee, only Thee to love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Him only shalt thou serve.'—[Luke 4,] v. 8.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 132.
Publishing: Public Domain