Give us, Lord, the grace to give

Verse 1
Give us, Lord, the grace to give,
Then we shall relieve thy poor,
Then we shall from Thee receive
Gifts an hundred-fold and more,
Riches which can never fail,
Safe laid up for saints above,
Treasures incorruptible,
Endless stores of heavenly love.

Verse 2
Selling all our happiness,
All our hopes beneath the skies,
Strangely we procure thy grace
Without money, without price.
Gain, when grace removes us hence,
Solid25 and immortal good,
All our rich inheritance,
All the purchase of thy blood.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Sell that ye have, and give alms &c.’—[Luke 12,] v. 33.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 212.
Publishing: Public Domain