Full power to Thee thy Father gave,
Supreme authority to save
Whoe’er their proffer’d Lord embrace:
All flesh is now by purchase thine,
Who didst thy precious life resign
To ransom the whole fallen race:
Thou woudst on every soul bestow
The faith thro’ which thy people know
Eternal life on earth reveal’d:
Thou dost thy quickning Spirit give
To all who lovingly believe,
And find their blood-bought pardon seal’d.
Full power to Thee Thy Father gave
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘As Thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.’—[John 17,] v. 2." 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 48.
Publishing: Public Domain