But when on earth I cease to live,
Who shall my naked soul receive,
Nourish my soul which cannot die,
And all its endless wants supply?
Jesus, my sole resource Thou art,
Relieve my poverty of heart,
And let me my true riches see;
And find them all contain’d in Thee.
But when on earth I cease to live
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I am resolved what to do, that when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.'—[Luke 16,] v. 4.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 156.
Publishing: Public Domain