Great Founder of Thy church, in thee

Verse 1
Great founder of thy church, in thee
Our true Zerubbabel we see;
We see the plummet in thy hand:
To thee the Spirit, one and seven,
In various gifts and graces given,
Subdues the world to thy command:

Verse 2
Jehovah’s eyes, with thee they are:
Thy wise and providential care,
Which doth the universe sustain,
Is chiefly for thy saints employ’d,
’Till all thy saints are lost in God,
And thus their full perfection gain.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “They shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel, with those seven; they are the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth.”—[Zech.] iv. 10. 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 116.
Publishing: Public Domain