O Jesus, we adore Thee!

Verse 1
O Jesus, we adore Thee!
From all eternity,
There was no God before Thee:
There is no God but Thee:
Thee by thine incarnation,
Made manifest below
The God of our salvation
The Son of man we know.

Verse 2
Thy days of flesh are ended,
And to thy Father’s breast
Thou art again ascended,
In thy own joy to rest:
Thy sanctifying Spirit
Thou wilt to us send down,
And we shall soon inherit
Thine everlasting throne.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.’—[John 16,] v. 28." 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 43.
Publishing: Public Domain