A rich man saved! it cannot be, Ye that in riches trust

A rich man sav’d? it cannot be:
Ye that in riches trust,
Feel this impossibility,
Or be forever lost!
Despair: and then to Jesus fly,
Who can the bar remove,
For Jesus is the Lord most high,
Th’ Almighty God of love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘With men it is impossible, but not with God.’—[Mark 10,] v. 27.” Wesley originally published the first four lines this hymn in his 1762 hymnal "Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2" (Bristol: Farley, 1762). He later expanded it in his unpublished 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.”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 1977/575, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 34.
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