Father of everlasting grace,
Thou hast in us thy arm reveal’d,
Hast multiplied the faithful race,
Who conscious of our pardon seal’d,
Of joy unspeakable possest,
Anticipate our heavenly rest.
Father of everlasting grace, Thou hast in us
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Thou hast multiplied the nation, and to him increased the joy.”—[Isa.] ix. 3. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 381.
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