Christ our Head and heavenly Lord

Verse 1
Christ our Head, and heavenly Lord,
Thou only canst proclaim
By thine own inspoken word
Thy heavenly Father’s name:
Thou to us hast made it known,
His Power, and Wisdom from above,
Thee his Righteousness we own,
His Truth, and Life, and Love.

Verse 2
Thou his name unspeakable
Wilt farther yet declare,
Till we all his nature feel,
And all his impress bear,
Till compleat in holiness
We comprehend the mystery,
Fill’d with all his love and grace,
Forever fill’d with Thee.

Verse 3
Come, thou Holy one of God,
And by that Spirit Divine
Shed in all our hearts abroad
Thy Father’s love and thine:
Fit us for the blisful Sight,
And when Thou hast thy saints prepar’d,
Glory on our foreheads write,
Thyself our full Reward!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me, may be in them, and I in them.’—[John 17,] v. 26." 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 61.
Publishing: Public Domain