Supreme, incarnate Deity,
Display thy sovereign power in me,
Stone into flesh Thou canst convert,
A slave’s into a filial heart:
Speak; and begotten by the word,
I magnify my quickning Lord,
Tho’ dead in sin, I rise forgiven,
A child of grace, an heir of heaven.
Supreme, incarnate Deity
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.’—[Matt. 3,] v. 9.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 146.
Publishing: Public Domain