In Abraham our God we find
Father of Christ and all mankind,
Whose love deliver’d up his Son
The Victim dear in Isaac shewn:
Jacob presents in figure true
The Third proceeding from the Two,
Jacob—whose wrestling Spirit of grace
Gives birth to all the chosen race.
In Abraham our God we find
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘So Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.’—[Acts 7,] v. 8.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 203.
Publishing: Public Domain