Thee, Lord, I just and faithful own,
Rewarded for thy mercy sake:
Happy in God, I envy none
Who of thy joy with me partake:
Less than the least of saints I am,
Who less than all, thy grace improve,
No recompense by merit claim,
And bring no title, but thy love.
Thee, Lord, I just and faithful own
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But he answered one of them and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong &c.’—[Matt. 20,] v. 13, 14.” 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 334.
Publishing: Public Domain