Father, in whom we live

Verse 1
Father, in whom we live,
In whom we are, and move,
The glory, power, and praise receive
Of thy creating love:
Let all the angel-throng
Give thanks to God on high,
While earth repeats the joyful song,
And echoes to the sky.

Verse 2
Incarnate deity,
Let all the ransom’d race
Render in thanks their lives to thee
For thy redeeming grace;
The grace to sinners shew’d,
Ye heavenly quires, proclaim,
And cry Salvation to our God,
Salvation to the Lamb.

Verse 3
Spirit of holiness,
Let all thy saints adore
Thy sacred energy, and bless
Thine heart-renewing power
Not[1] angel-tongues can tell
Thy love’s extatic height,
The glorious joy unspeakable,
The beatific sight.

Verse 4
Eternal Tri-une Lord,
Let all the hosts above,
Let all the sons of men record,
And dwell upon thy love;
When heaven and earth are fled
Before thy glorious face,
Sing all the saints thy love hath made,
Thine everlasting praise.

[1] Wesley changed “Not” to “Nor” in 1761.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in Hymns for Those That Seek and Those That Have Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ (William Strahan, 1747). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 4 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 254.
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