God over all for ever blessed, Jehovah, and Jehovah’s Son

Verse 1
God over all forever blest,
Jehovah, and Jehovah’s Son,
From doing good Thou canst not rest,
With thine eternal Father one:
His works of grace shall never cease,
The property of Love Divine
Is to communicate and bless,
And all his attributes are thine.

Verse 2
Thy Providence preserves, maintains,
And rules the universe it made,
Thy Spirit moves, and acts, and reigns
In all that hang upon thine aid:
Thy Father is in Thee employ’d;
Thou dost his works and Thou alone;
The power, and majesty of God,
Essence, and will is all thy own.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.’—[John 5,] v. 17." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 368.
Publishing: Public Domain