Fountain of life to all that live,
Thyself, th’ essential life divine,
Thou didst to our first parents give,
And in their sinless nature shine:
The life was light and happiness,
And wisdom pure with thee bestow’d:
In all thy works they saw thy face,
While all thy works were fill’d with God.
Fountain of life to all that live
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “In him was life, and the life was the light of men.”—[John] i. 4. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 318.
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