Nought we love which man can give

Nought we love which man can give,
Nought which man can take away,
When thy sayings we receive,
When we only Thee obey:
Then thy greatness we revere,
When the Judge of all we own,
Tremble while we sojourn here,
Fear, and love our God alone.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell.'—[Luke 12,] v. 5.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 135.
Publishing: Public Domain