What tongue the greatness can explain

What tongue the greatness can explain,
Or estimate the soul of man?
Its worth is only known to God,
Who purchas’d it with all his blood.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Ye are of more value than many sparrows.’—[Matt. 10,] v. 31.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 239.
Publishing: Public Domain