Sole Object of Thy Father’s love

Verse 1
Sole Object of thy Father’s love,
A draught of all his great designs
From Him Thou hast receiv’d above,
And dost whate’er his will enjoins:
Equal to his, Thou shew’st thy power
Omnipotent the dead to raise,
Bodies Thou canst, and souls restore
To all the vigorous life of grace.

Verse 2
Thou dost on whom Thou wilt bestow
The various life deriv’d from Thee:
Thee thy believing people know
Fountain of immortality,
Thy sovereign Godhead we confess,
By whom the Holy Ghost is given,
And then the plenitude of grace,
And then th’ eternal life of heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘For the Father loveth the Son &c.’—[John 5,] v. 20, 21." 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 370.
Publishing: Public Domain