Fulness of the Deity

Fulness of the Deity
Resides in Christ the Lord:
Greater far than Jacob, Thee
The patriarch ador’d:
Well of life, divinely deep,
Out of thy plenitude of grace
Water now thy lambs and sheep,
And all the heavenborn race.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle.’—[John 4,] v. 12." 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 226.
Publishing: Public Domain