The little child, the twice-born man

Verse 1
The little child, the twice-born man
Thou, Lord, wilt to thyself receive,
Who humbly doth his soul refrain,
No glory to the creature give,
None to himself assume, or claim
Among the saints an honour’d name.

Verse 2
O could I gain my calling’s height
Reduc’d to second infancy,
Smallest of all in my own sight,
Caught to thy arms, and hid in Thee,
Hid from the world, unmark’d, unknown,
Till seen the partner of thy throne.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Jesus took a child, and set him by him.’—[Luke 9,] v. 47.” 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 188.
Publishing: Public Domain