The partner of our flesh and blood, whom all His heavens

Verse 1
The Partner of our flesh and blood,
Whom all his heavens cannot contain,
Refus’d to be intitled good
By one who counted him but man,
That we our nothingness might own,
And good ascribe to God alone.

Verse 2
Shall a sav’d sinner then receive
His foolish fellow-creatures praise?
If good, and pure from sin he live,
Whate’er he is, he is by grace,
Nor dares the wondring croud admit
To fall, and worship at his feet.

Verse 3
Applause from man he cannot bear;
Much less will he himself commend,
Himself supremely good declare,
Boldly the highest seat ascend,
And thence to all mankind proclaim
“I have attain’d, I perfect am!”

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Why callest thou me good?’—[Matt. 19,] v. 17.” 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 324.
Publishing: Public Domain