What is the fruit which Christ requires

Verse 1
What is the fruit which Christ requires?
Promises vain, or good desires,
Our outward services?
These are but leaves which fade and die,
Nor can the want of grace supply,
Nor can the Saviour please.

Verse 2
But faith, and hope of joys above,
True virtue, Lord, and real love
Are pleasant to thy taste,
Good works, and meek humility,
These are the fruits requir’d by Thee,
Which shall forever last.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Seeing a figtree he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon &c.’—[Mark 11,] v. 13.” 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 42.
Publishing: Public Domain