Fulness of power in heaven is thine

Verse 1
Fulness of power in heaven is thine
Who giv’st the Comforter Divine:
Thy Spirit on our earth bestow’d
Descends to witness with the blood,
To fill us with thy purity,
And draw thy members up to Thee.

Verse 2
Our mighty Intercessor there,
For us Thou dost the place prepare,
Thine own redeem’d possession claim,
And mark a mansion with my name,
And purchas’d for thy ransom’d ones
Thy Hand shall fix us on our thrones.

Verse 3
Fulness of power in earth is thine,
Who canst the sinful heart incline,
The virtue of thy cross display,
And bow the nations to thy sway,
Make every soul of man submit,
And fall, and kiss thy bleeding feet.

Verse 4
Thou by thy energy of grace
Canst sanctify thy chosen race,
Protect thy little flock below,
And wash, and keep us white as snow,
Thy love’s omnipotence make known
By perfecting thy saints in one.

Verse 5
God over all, and Judge supreme,
Thou canst absolve us, or condemn:
Thou wilt thy dreadful power declare,
And doom the wicked at thy bar,
Consign to flames unquenchable,
And seal them up with fiends in hell.

Verse 6
Jesus, thy saving power employ,
My evil nature to destroy,
Extirminate thy foe in me,
And set my heart at liberty
To serve thee, like thy hosts above,
With perfect holiness and love.

Verse 7
O that with all thy people I
Might prove thy power in earth and sky!
Now by thy power with God obtain
His Spirit in my heart to reign,
And with thine heavenly Father come,
And claim thine everlasting home.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth.’—Matt. 28, v. 18.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 440.
Publishing: Public Domain