Commendable excess

Commendable excess
Of generous faith and love!
O could I thus my zeal express
My gratitude approve;
Pour out the precious balm,
And rendring Him his own,
Whate’er I have, whate’er I am
Expend on Christ alone!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘She brake the box, and poured it on his head.’—[Mark 14,] v. 3.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 69.
Publishing: Public Domain