Weakest, when I strongest seem

Verse 1
Weakest, when I strongest seem,
Fall’n alas I am thro’ pride,
Sinless then myself I dream,
Pure, and wholly sanctified,
Fold my arms, and take my ease,
Safe in perfect holiness.

Verse 2
Wake my soul to sleep no more,
Give me back my poverty,
’Till the kingdom thou restore:
When it is restor’d in me,
Give me, Lord, myself to feel
Weak, and poor, and nothing still.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “When he was strong, his heart was lifted up.”—[II. Chron.] xxvi. 16. 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 215.
Publishing: Public Domain