The cause of human ruin see!
Man will his own disposer be,
And independant live,
His gracious stock at once demands,
Nor will from a kind Father’s hands
His daily bread receive.
The cause of human ruin see!
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.'—[Luke 15,] v. 12.” 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 234.
Publishing: Public Domain