The love of God is found again,
Where’er we find the love of man,
The cause in its effect we see,
And by the fruit discern the tree;
From human to divine ascend
Its pattern, principle, and end,
And loving man in God alone
We feel that both the loves are one.
The love of God is found
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.’—Matt. 22, v. 39.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 356.
Publishing: Public Domain