Their reward they have, not thine,
Human honours for divine,
Have their aim, by man admir’d,
Have the thing their hearts desir’d:
When Thou dost as Judge appear,
Who receiv’d their portion here,
Stript of all their earthly gains,
Only hell for them remains.
Their reward they have, not thine
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They have their reward.’—[Matt. 6,] v. 5.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 176.
Publishing: Public Domain