Father, to that first-born of thine
Thou hast the blessing given,
The power, and dignity divine,
Th’ inheritance of heaven.
O how shall I the younger son
The elder’s right obtain?
I’ll put my brother’s raiment on,
And thus the blessing gain.
Father, to that first-born of mine
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Rebecca took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, and put them upon Jacob her younger son.”—[Gen.] xxvii. 15. 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 26.
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