Hast thou indeed done well?
The action is not thine;
The Spirit is its Principle,
Its rule the will Divine;
To Him from whom it flow’d
It doth directly tend,
And wrought in the pure love of God
His glory is its End.
Hast thou indeed done well
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?’—[John 6,] v. 28." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 381.
Publishing: Public Domain