Far off we need not rove

Verse 1
Far off we need not rove,
To find the God of love,
In his Providential care
Ever intimately near:
All his various works declare,
God, the bounteous God, is here!

Verse 2
We live, and move, and are
Thro’ his preserving care:
He doth still in life maintain
Every soul that moves and lives:
Gives us back our breath again,
Being every moment gives.

Verse 3
Who live, O God, in Thee,
Entirely thine should be:
Thine we are, an heaven-born race,
Only to thy glory move,
Thee with all our powers we praise,
Thee with all our being love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being.’—[Acts 17,] v. 27, 28." This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 342.
Publishing: Public Domain