Who is so great a God as ours!
He can his church sustain,
Without the help of earthly powers,
The countenance of man:
Let worldly potentates disown,
We rest beneath his wings,
And know we are to Jesus known
The sovereign King of kings.
Who is so great a God as ours, He can
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Another king arose, which knew not Joseph.’—[Acts 7,] v. 18.” 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 205.
Publishing: Public Domain