What meekness, grace, and love divine
Thro’ all his words and actions shine!
He teaches not insults his foes,
Nor publishes the hearts he knows;
He stops the mouth of baffled spight,
Nor brings their secret sins to light,
Nor drags them out for all to see,
But hides his silent victory.
What meekness, grace, and love divine
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Which of you shall have an ass or an ox ... And they could not answer him &c.’—[Luke 14,] v. [5,] 6.” 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 225.
Publishing: Public Domain