All glory to Thee Our ancestors’ God

Verse 1
All glory to Thee Our ancestors’ God,
Whose wonders we see On sinners renew’d!
Our best adoration Thy benefits claim,
Thy grace and salvation Forever the same.

Verse 2
The spiritual blind Their Saviour behold,
Inlighten’d they find Their way to the fold:
The lame we see walking, The maim’d are restor’d,
The dumb are all talking In praise of their Lord.

Verse 3
Thy work is begun: But O, let it be
With power carried on In them and in me;
Who own our condition, Afflicted and poor,
And trust the Physician To perfect our cure.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The multitude wondred when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.’—[Matt. 15,] v. 31.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 30.
Publishing: Public Domain