“Then know thy place” (a novice cries,
Whose fancy has attain’d the prize)
“Stand by thyself, nor rank with me,
For I am holier than thee;
Beyond the chief apostle I!
And you, who dare my grace deny,
The proof of my perfection know,
It is—because I think it so!”
Then know thy place, a novice cries
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Not as though I were already perfect.”— [Phil.] iii. 12. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 79.
Publishing: Public Domain