Th’ advantages of riches see,
And envy them who will!
They steal the heart, O Lord, from Thee,
With care and sorrow fill:
A stranger to himself and God
Whoe’er on wealth relies,
Will never find the narrow road
Which leads us to the skies.
Th’ advantages of riches see
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions.’—[Mark 10,] v. 22.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 61.
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