Tho’ all the precious promises
I find fulfill’d in Jesu’s love,
If perfect I myself profess,
My own profession I disprove:
The purest saint that lives below
Doth his own sanctity disclaim,
The wisest owns, I nothing know,
The holiest cries, I nothing am!
Tho’ all the precious promises
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “If I say, I am perfect, mine own mouth shall prove me perverse.”—[Job] ix. 20. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 238.
Publishing: Public Domain