A pleasant heritage is mine

Verse 1
A pleasant heritage is mine,
In a fair land and good:
I ask’d, and gain’d the gift divine
For Jesus sake bestow’d:
Father, thou hast my sins pass’d by,
To me a pardon given,
And conscious of thy favor, I
Injoy the smiles of heaven.

Verse 2
Yet still I humbly sue for more,
A larger benefit,
A second blessing I implore,
To make the first compleat:
In all his fulness from above
The Comforter impart,
And let the well of life and love
Spring up within my heart.

Verse 3
Thy presence Lord, the fountain brings
Of purest holiness,
The upper and the nether springs,
The heights and depths of grace:
O might I into nothing sink,
Before the God unknown,
And rise the chrystal stream to drink
Which gushes from thy throne.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; given me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs.’—[Judg.] 1:15.” 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 131.
Publishing: Public Domain