Lord, from sinful worshippers

Lord, from sinful worshippers
Thou dost avert thine eyes,
Man’s abominable prayers
And formal sacrifice
Are no sacrifice to Thee,
For Thou an holy Spirit art,
Thou our sole Felicity
Requirest all our heart.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Have ye offer’d to me slain beasts and sacrifices?’—[Acts 7,] v. 43 [42].” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 313.
Publishing: Public Domain