Thus may I give, when man I praise,
To God the glory of his grace,
Who makes in us his nature known,
And claims our goodness for his own:
And while I thus the saints commend,
O may their hearts with mine ascend,
Ascribing to the source above
Our all in humble thankful love!
Thus may I give, when man I praise
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, because your faith groweth, &c.”—2 Thess. i. 3. 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 95.
Publishing: Public Domain