Woe to you who riches prize

Wo to you who riches prize,
Ye who now in wealth abound;
Ye have found your paradise,
All your paradise have found:
Curst on earth with what ye love,
Look for no reward above.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Wo unto you that are rich: for ye have received your consolation.'—[Luke 6,] v. 24.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 152.
Publishing: Public Domain