Love is the source of every good

Verse 1
Love is the source of every good,
Concupiscence of every sin,
The fountain by the stream is show’d,
By works the principle within:
Good actions a good heart bewray,
Which humble souls in vain would hide,
And passions vile themselves betray,
And outward speaks the inward pride.

Verse 2
The heart corrupt with all his care
An hypocrite cannot conceal,
The lip at last will make it bare,
Its secret rottenness reveal;
His wicked skill to lurk unknown
Cannot the voice of works suppress,
But forc’d he is by deeds to own
“Mine inward parts are wickedness.[”]

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘A good man out of the good treasure of his might [heart] bringeth forth that which is good &c.’—[Luke 6,] v. 45.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 158.
Publishing: Public Domain