The good in man is not his own,
But freely flows from grace alone,
If to the right our hearts incline,
They own a secret touch divine;
And Britain’s boasted loyalty,
O King of kings, is all from thee.
The good in man is not his own
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “There went with Saul a band of men whose hearts God had touched.”—[I. Sam.] x. 26. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 157.
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