Weakness still with ignorance

Verse 1
Weakness still with ignorance
And poverty combin’d
Triumph o’re the boasted sense
And wisdom of mankind,
Grandeur, wealth, and power subdue,
For Jesus self maintains our cause,
Jesus, who the world o’rethrew
While bleeding on his cross.

Verse 2
Men in every age are seen
By grace Divine employ’d,
Simple, rude, unletter’d men,
And only taught of God:
Sent into the world we go,
And gather souls on every side,
Nothing else resolv’d to know
But Jesus crucified.

Verse 3
Let the great and wise confess
From whence our boldness flows,
Jesus’ meanest witnesses
We cannot dread our foes;
Men who have with Jesus been,
And at his mouth receiv’d his word,
Conquerors of the world and sin
We only fear the Lord.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When they perceived that they were ignorant men, they marvelled, and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.”—[Acts 4,] v. 13.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 174.
Publishing: Public Domain