Religion

Luke 1:53: He hath Jilted the hungry with good things

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 11 (1871)

Religion

Who did the rebel angels quell,
And hurl'd them down from heaven to hell.
Doth still the proud abase,
Doth cast the mighty from their thrones,
The humble, weak, and Uttle ones
Exalting in their place.

The angels fell through pride o'erthrown,
Through His humility the Son
Bids fallen man arise.
Glad tidings to the poor reveals,
The hungry with His Spirit fills,
And all their wants supplies.

But souls unconscious of their wants,
Self-fill'd, self-saved, self-righteous saints,
Whose good is all their own,
He sends unjustified away,
That emptied of themselves they may
Be saved by grace alone.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Luke 1:53: He hath Jilted the hungry with good things.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5008/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Luke 1:53: He hath Jilted the hungry with good things.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/5008/.

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