Verse 1
All thanks and praise to God belong,
Our Father and our friend;
Let us with life begin the song,
Which never more shall end.

Verse 2
All power and majesty are his,
He ever reigns alone;
Our souls he did in mercy seize,
And he can keep his own.

Verse 3
Unspotted from the world, and sin,
In innocence we live,
Before the poison works within,
To God our hearts we give.

Verse 4
Not to the vain desires of men
We live, but to our God,
Who died for us, and rose again,
To wash us in his blood.

Verse 5
To him our earliest fruits we bring,
The sacrifice of praise;
All our diversion is to sing
The dear Redeemer’s grace.

Verse 6
To him we innocently live,
Delight his will to do;
A pattern to you men we give,
A child may teach e’en you.

Verse 7
Children ye must be all again,
Make haste like us to be;
Return ye wise, ye[1] sinful men
To harmless infancy.

Verse 8
Poor men, acknowledge your offence,
And blush to hear our song,
And sigh to see the innocence
Ye have out-liv’d so long.

[1] Wesley changed “ye” to “and” in 1747.