A rich man sav’d! it cannot be
But by a more abundant grace:
Superior love must set him free,
Or justly doom’d to his own place,
The vile idolater shall feel
That riches were the gate of hell.
A rich man saved! it cannot be, but by a more abundant grace
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.’—[Matt. 19,] v. 24.” 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 327.
Publishing: Public Domain