Father, behold Thy favourite Son

Verse 1
Father, behold thy fav’rite Son,
The glorious partner of thy throne,
For ever plac’d at thy right hand,
O look on thy Messiah’s face,
And seal the cov’nant of thy grace,
To us who in thy Jesus stand.

To us thou hast redemption sent;
And we again to thee present
The blood that speaks our sins forgiven,
That sprinkles all the nations round;
And now thou hear’st the solemn sound
Loud-echoing thro’ the courts of heaven.

Verse 2
The cross on Calvary he bore,
He suffer’d once to die no more,
But left a sacred pledge behind:
See here!—It on thy altar lies,
Memorial of the sacrifice
He offer’d once for all mankind.

Father, the grand oblation see,
The death as present now with thee,
As when he gasp’d on earth—“Forgive!”
Answer, and shew the curse remov’d,
Accept us in the well-belov’d,
And bid thy world of rebels live.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in a hymnal jointly credited to John and Charles Wesley; it is likely though not fully certain that Charles wrote it. Introduced in Hymns on the Lord's Supper, published by John and Charles Wesley (Bristol: Felix Farley, 1745).Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 3 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 305.
Publishing: Public Domain