The Fruit of Mary’s womb

Verse 1
The Fruit of Mary’s womb
Is blest, and that alone,
Whatever blessings come
From the eternal throne
Thro’ Mary’s Offspring we receive,
And happy by his life we live.

Verse 2
That holy Child bestow’d
On poor apostate man,
That everlasting God
Whom heaven cannot contain,
Source of our gracious joys He is,
And constitutes our Glorious Bliss.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Blessed is the fruit of thy womb.’—[Luke 1,] v. 42.” 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 107.
Publishing: Public Domain