God is love and holiness

God is love and holiness,
And only can approve
Saints who Jesus’ mind express,
Who Him in Jesus love:
God doth in his Son delight,
And all that his resemblance bear,
Leaves the rest to endless night,
And blackness of despair.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He answered and said, Verily, I say unto you, I know you not.’—[Matt. 25,] v. 12.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 385.
Publishing: Public Domain