The world an outward temple praise

Verse 1
The world an outward temple praise,
Magnific, such as worms can raise,
Th’ effect of human art,
With lofty battlements and towers;
But God, whose thoughts are not as ours,
Regards an humble heart.

Verse 2
An humble heart he makes his shrine,
Hallow’d by charity divine,
An house of praise and prayer,
Where God is lov’d, rever’d, ador’d,
A living temple of the Lord
Forever present there!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Master, see what manner of stones, and what buildings are here.’—[Mark 13,] v. 1.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 60.
Publishing: Public Domain