Almighty God of love

Verse 1
Almighty God of love,
Set up th’ attracting sign,
And summon whom thou dost approve
For messengers divine;
From Abraham’s favour’d seed
Thy new apostles chuse,
In isles and continents to spread
The dead reviving news:

Verse 2
Them snatch’d out of the flame
Thro’ every nation send
The true Messias to proclaim
The universal friend;
That all the God unknown
May learn of Jews t’ adore,
And see thy glory in thy Son
’Till time shall be no more.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations ... that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.”—[Isa.] lxvi. 19. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 469.
Publishing: Public Domain