God of eternal truth and grace

God of eternal truth and grace,
Thy faithful promise seal,
Thy word, thy oath to Abraham’s race
In us, e’en us fulfil:
Let us to perfect love restor’d
Thine image here retrieve,
And in the presence of our Lord
The life of angels live.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.”—[Mic.] vii. 20. 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 100.
Publishing: Public Domain