Father, thou hast rais’d him up,
That prophet of the Lord,
Every heart’s desire and hope,
Thine own eternal Word:
In our feeble flesh array’d
We own the filial deity,
Jesus like his brethren made,
To make us all like thee.
Fattier, Thou hast rais’d him up
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee.”—[Deut.] xviii. 18. 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 103.
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