Who cleave to earth and sin,
Believe what Christ doth say,
(He makes the terms of entring in,
He is the Door, the Way)
For you with wealth to part,
For you your all to sell,
The Searcher of the worldly heart
Declares Impossible.
Who cleave to earth and sin
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Jesus said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!’—[Luke 18,] v. 24.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 172.
Publishing: Public Domain