To Christ ascribing my success,
To Christ I may the glory give
In words, while secretly I please
Myself, and vain delight receive,
May praise myself in praising God,
Happy that I by men am known,
That I, not others, was employ’d,
That I perform’d the work alone.
To Christ ascribing my success
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are made subject &c.’—[Luke 10,] v. 17.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 192.
Publishing: Public Domain