God who bad the grave restore
His well-beloved Son,
Made by his almighty power
The Filial Godhead known,
First-begotten from the dead
He rais’d him up, our souls to bless,
Sent him, that our quickned Head
Might all his members raise.
God who bade the grave restore
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.’—[Acts 13,] v. 33.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 355.
Publishing: Public Domain