Religion
Acts: Were his alms and ceaseless prayers
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 12 (1872)
Religion
Were his alms and ceaseless prayers
Splendid sins in God's esteem?
No: the Lord Himself declares
Both acceptable to Him:
Grateful both as incense rise,
Bring an angel from the skies.
Prayers and alms to heaven ascend,
But they first from heaven come down:
Man to help if man intend
Good design'd is not his own:
If to God his heart aspire
God infused the chaste desire.
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Wesley, Charles. “Acts: Were his alms and ceaseless prayers.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/6353/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Acts: Were his alms and ceaseless prayers.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/6353/.
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