Whom Jesus for his followers owns
He calls, and keeps his little ones:
Others above themselves they prize,
Less than the least in their own eyes,
They never boast their grace, or dare
Their own perfection to declare,
But still their littleness maintain,
Till great in heaven with Christ they reign.
Whom Jesus for his followers owns
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘These little ones which believe in me.’—[Matt. 18,] v. 6.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 31.
Publishing: Public Domain