What divine humility
Doth the great Prophet show!
Hearkning to thy creatures Thee
Th’ eternal God we know:
Plac’d among the doctors Thou,
That all the doctors may submit,
To their heavenly Teacher bow,
And listen at thy feet.
What divine humility
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They found him sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.'—[Luke 2,] v. 46.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 84.
Publishing: Public Domain