Of bliss essentially possest,
Out of Himself He cannot rest,
The all-sufficient God we own,
His proper End himself alone:
But whom the heavens cannot contain,
Reveals himself the End of man:
We find him in our hearts, and prove,
The all-sufficient God is Love!
Of bliss essentially possess’d
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘What is the place of my rest?’—[Acts 7,] v. 49.” 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 216.
Publishing: Public Domain