God who his creature’s love requires,
Our only happiness desires,
He claims the whole, and not a part,
Not half our goods, but all our heart,
My heart, O God, is all thy due,
Is always naked to thy view;
And if I love not Thee alone,
I make th’ impostor’s doom my own.
God, who His creatures’ love requires
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Whiles it remained, was it not thine own?’—[Acts 5,] v. 4.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 182.
Publishing: Public Domain