Adopted by the Father’s grace

Verse 1
Adopted by the Father’s grace,
Incorporated with the Son,
Fill’d with the Spirit of holiness,
God one in three, and three in one
Christians throughout their lives proclaim,
And bear the great Jehovah’s name.

Verse 2
Partakers of his nature pure,
They all his words with joy receive,
His church, they labour and endure,
His saints, for God alone they live,
His host they see the glittering prize,
And fight their passage to the skies.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Go ye, and disciple all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.’—Matt. 28, v. 19.” This hymn appears in the 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 442.
Publishing: Public Domain