Children of God by faith, we owe

Verse 1
Children of God by faith, we owe
Our hearts and lips, O Christ, to thee:
Thou didst proceed from God we know,
His Son from all eternity,
Thou cam’st his heavenly Messenger,
And didst in mortal flesh appear.

Verse 2
Wherefore we thankfully believe,
Enter into thy strange design,
To Thee thy praise and glory give,
Thou great Philanthropist Divine,
With warmest gratitude approve,
And our Almighty Lover love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘If God were your Father, ye would love me, for I proceeded forth, and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.’—[John 8,] v. 42." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 430.
Publishing: Public Domain