Your life on needful things

Verse 1
Sinners, to you the source we show
From whence all human discord springs,
That origin of evil know,
That direful lust of earthly things,
And ask your Lord, in instant prayer,
The root out of your hearts to tear.

Verse 2
Your life on needful things depends,
Not on superfluous treasures vain:
A little serves for nature’s ends;
And if a world of wealth ye gain,
Ye nothing gain with all your care
But food to eat, and cloathes to wear.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He said unto them, Take heed and beware of covetousness &c.'—[Luke 12,] v. 15.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 137. Verse 2 was 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 209.
Publishing: Public Domain