Vainest man affects applause,
All his good to man displays;
Jesus from the world withdraws,
Hides his miracles of grace,
Teaches his disciples true
Noise and pomp, like him, to shun,
Secretly their works to do,
Praise to seek from God alone.
Vainest man affects applause
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John.’—[Mark 5,] v. 37.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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 489.
Publishing: Public Domain