Father, in Jesus powerful name

Verse 1
Father, in Jesus powerful name
Thy energy divine
Thy grace we for our children claim
Adopt, and keep them thine.

Verse 2
Thou only canst great wonders do;
Begotten from above
Transform them into creatures new
By giving them thy love.

Verse 3
The work miraculous begin
By opening now their eyes,
Alarm them, while they sleep in sin,
And bid the dead arise.

Verse 4
“Let there be light” if Thou command,
Light in their hearts shall be,
And They thy will shall understand,
And They thy face shall see.

Verse 5
Thy will is freely to forgive,
That after Thee renew’d
They may to thy great glory live
In thy similitude.

Verse 6
Now then the Spirit of holiness
Into their souls inspire,
And add them to the Chosen race
And to the heavenly quire.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “[A Father’s prayer for his Son.] IV.” This hymn appears in the ca. 1786 manuscript “MS Miscellaneous Hymns.” 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 1977/556, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 2). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 1 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1988), page 288-89.
Publishing: Public Domain