Paternal source of deity,
Accept the thanks thy creatures bring;
Jesus thy filial Godhead we
With angels and archangels sing:
Honour divine and equal praise
To thee, O Holy Ghost, be given
In glorious everlasting lays,
When earth is swallow’d up in heaven.
Paternal Source of Deity
Hymnal/Album: Introduced in Gloria Patri, or Hymns to the Trinity (London, 1746). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 3 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 350.
Publishing: Public Domain