Father, Thy heavenly voice I own

Verse 1
Father, thy heavenly voice I own,
Propitious thro’ thy favrite Son
I know Thou art to me:
Cloth’d with his blood and righteousness,
Accepted in his worth, I bless
Thy gracious Majesty.

Verse 2
But did He not our nature take,
Thy grace and favor for his sake
That every soul might find?
To Jesus our whole race unite,
And then eternally delight
In all the ransom’d kind.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Lo, a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased.’—Matt. 3, v. 17.” Wesley originally published this hymn in his 1762 hymnal "Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2" (Bristol: Farley, 1762). He later revised and expanded it in his unpublished 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.”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 148.
Publishing: Public Domain