False we must ourselves confess,
If ourselves aright we know:
All our truth and righteousness
From some other fountain flow:
Jesus, Thou that Fountain art,
Source of grace and purity:
Spread thyself throughout my heart,
Dwell, by perfect love, in me.
False we must ourselves confess
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.’—[Mark 7,] v. 20.” 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 5.
Publishing: Public Domain