The treasure of celestial grace

Verse 1
The treasure of celestial grace,
The riches of true holiness
In earthen vessels we receive,
When Jesus in our hearts doth live:
Yet when in us He lives alone,
His good we dare not call our own,
The vessel can no glory claim,
The earth continues still the same.

Verse 2
The power and excellence divine
In me reveal’d, is Christ’s not mine:
His may it still to all appear,
Mine be the sinner’s character:
I nothing have whereof to boast,
I, I woud sink intirely lost,
Shake off this vile, terrestrial clay,
And mingle with eternal day.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.’—[2 Cor.] 4:7.” 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. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 45.
Publishing: Public Domain