Who our trust in princes place

Verse 1
Who our trust in princes place,
On broken reeds we lean,
Greatest of the sinful race,
Yet still they are but men,
Weak as helpless infancy
From every child of man I cease,
Nothing can they add to me
Of real happiness.

Verse 2
Ease to an afflicted soul
The creature cannot give,
Make a wounded spirit whole
Or help me to believe:
Jesus, I on Thee depend
Who canst, and wilt my sins remove,
Help, and save me to the end
By thine almighty love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘O put not your trust in princes, or in any child of man, for there is no help in them.’—[Ps.] 146:2.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 341.
Publishing: Public Domain