The saint who of his grace presumes,
Nor yet his own great weakness knows,
A woman’s word, or look o’recomes,
A pillar of the church o’rethrows.
And Peter’s sin proclaims to all,
That pride precedes a certain fall.
The saint who of his grace presumes
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘She looked upon him and said, And thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth. But he denied.’—[Mark 14,] v. [67,] 68.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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 81.
Publishing: Public Domain