The humble man by Jesus sent,
If just authority constrain,
As mercy’s meanest instrument
Speaks of himself with irksom pain,
And chusing to remain unknown,
Fixes our thoughts on Christ alone.
The humble man by Jesus sent
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then said they unto him, Who art thou? what sayest thou of thyself?’—[John 1,] v. 22." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 216.
Publishing: Public Domain