Silver and gold he none possest,
Poor follower of a Master poor,
But with substantial riches blest,
Riches which evermore endure;
To men that sold themselves for nought,
An instrument their souls to save,
The promis’d liberty unbought
Freely, as he receiv’d, he gave.
Silver and gold he none possessed
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He hoped that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him.’—[Acts 24,] v. 26." 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 415.
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