The word of reconciling grace

Verse 1
The word of reconciling grace
The Father’s will made known,
Who sent to all our fallen race
Salvation in his Son:
Jesus internally reveals
The peace ’twixt man and God,
The pardon by his Spirit He seals
Who bought it with his blood.

Verse 2
The peace mysterious he bestows,
When he himself imparts:
River of life, it then o’reflows
Our pure believing hearts;
We know him then the Lord most-high
Who hath the earnest given,
And taste the joys that cannot die,
The ripest joys of heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all).”—[Acts 10,] v. 36.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 338.
Publishing: Public Domain