God is the plenitude of good

Verse 1
God is the plenitude of good,
The Source, the Pattern, and the End:
The goodness on mankind bestow’d
Doth, as a drop, from Him descend,
And daily, if we still believe,
Out of his fulness we receive.

Verse 2
By faith we our Example trace,
And more and more like God appear,
Beholding him with open face,
Transform’d into his image here:
Yet still we by reflexion shine,
And own the glory is Divine.

Verse 3
To him in all our steps we tend,
And fresh degrees of glory gain,
Living, and acting for this End,
Till full perfection we attain,
Till of ourselves we cease to be,
Absorb’d in his Immensity.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Why callest thou me good?’—Matt. 19, v. 17.” 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 325.
Publishing: Public Domain