What doth the Lord require of man?
From sin if we can never cease,
Or do the things his laws ordain,
He asks impossibilities!
But if thou ask them, Lord, from me,
Impossibilities shall be.
What doth the Lord require of man
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee?”—[Deut.] x. 12. 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 100.
Publishing: Public Domain