What but the love of truth and Thee
From nature’s love can set me free,
The just contempt of life bestow,
Of all the goods and ills below?
Saviour, infuse into my heart
The grace with all for Thee to part,
And lo, I chearfully resign
My life, to find it hid in thine!
What but the love of truth and thee
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.’—[Mark 8,] v. 35.” 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 19.
Publishing: Public Domain