The world his abject poverty

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The world his abject poverty

Author: Charles Wesley (1766)
Tune: BEAUFORT (Wild)
Published in 1 hymnal

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1. The world his abject poverty
His low estate disdain,
And nothing great in Jesus see
The humbled Son of man:
But we who Christ aright have known,
And seen with inward eyes,
Adore the poor mechanick’s Son
Who made both earth and skies.

2. The poor I to the rich prefer,
If with thine eyes I see;
To bear thy Spirit’s character
The poor are chose by Thee:
The poor in every age and place
Thou dost, O God, approve
To mark with thy distinguish’d grace,
T’ inrich with faith and love.

3. We tell the proud indignant race
That heaven is due to none,
The source and principle of grace
Is hid in God alone:
The number of his chosen here
We must insist is small;
Yet still the God of love we clear,
Who offers life to all.

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Author: Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >

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