The principle of grace Divine

The principle of grace divine
Sown in this earthy heart of mine,
Is humble joy, and heavenly peace,
And true, implanted righteousness:
Though scarce discernible the grain,
It doth the tree of life contain,
The purity of saints above,
And all the powers of perfect love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘It is like a grain of mustard seed, which when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds &c.’—[Mark 4,] v. 31, 32.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 55. 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 274.
Publishing: Public Domain