Who of himself as something thinks

Verse 1
Who of himself as something thinks,
Himself he doth not know,
But from his lofty summit sinks
Into the gulph below;
A sinful nothing, he forgets
His sin and nothingness
Himself by vain presumption cheats,
And forfeits all his grace.

Verse 2
Woud Paul himself as quite secure,
As crown’d already, say
“I, I am holy, perfect, pure,
“And cannot err, or stray?”
The holiest doth himself disclaim,
The chief of sinners call,
“Less than the least, I nothing am,
“And Christ is all in all.[”]

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘If a man think himself to be something, being nothing, he deceiveth himself.’—[Gal.] 6:3.” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” 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 1977/576, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 469.
Publishing: Public Domain