Can it never be fulfill’d?
Then we can never love:
But by thy good Spirit seal’d,
We all the truth shall prove;
Thou our hearts shalt circumcise,
And give us meekly to confess
Perfect love which God supplies,
Is perfect holiness.
Can it never be fulfill’d
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Love is the fulfilling of the law.”—[Rom.] xiii. 10. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). 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 20.
Publishing: Public Domain