Father of our gracious Lord

Verse 1
Father of our gracious Lord,
Thy righteousness we own;
By th’ angelic host ador’d,
And by thy children known,
Hidden from the world Thou art,
Till humbly they thy Son receive;
Then they find him in their heart,
And one with God they live.

Verse 2
We have surely found him here,
Sent in his saints to dwell,
Faith’s Almighty Finisher
Thy justice to reveal:
Justice now confers the prize,
Deserv’d, and purchas’d by thy Son:
Justice wills that we should rise,
His members, to his throne.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee; but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.’—[John 17,] v. 25." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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 60.
Publishing: Public Domain