To save the rich from hell,
Above the world to raise,
There needs a double miracle
Of thine almighty grace:
But if to Thee he run,
Thy riches he receives,
And then he trusts thy love alone,
And poor in spirit lives.
To save the rich from hell
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The things which are impossible with men, are possible with God.'—[Luke 18,] v. 27.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 173.
Publishing: Public Domain