Thy favour and love I prefer
To life in its happiest hours,
Possest of a paradise here,
When mercy my spirit o’erpowers:
All earthly delights I forego,
All creature enjoyments resign,
When blest with the heaven, to know
My Jesus eternally mine.
Thy favour and love I prefer
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Thy loving kindness is better than life.”—[Psalm] lxiii. 3. 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 303.
Publishing: Public Domain