Thanks be to God, whose truth and power

Verse 1
Thanks be to God, whose truth, and power
And faithful mercies never end,
Who brings us thro’ the mortal hour,
And bids our spotless souls ascend!

Verse 2
Thanks be to God, the God of love,
The Giver of all-conquering grace,
Who calls our Friend to joys above,
And shows him there his open face.

Verse 3
The God whom here his faith beheld,
The Father’s fulness in his Son
He sees in glorious light reveal’d,
And shouts, and falls before the throne.

Verse 4
We, Saviour, at thy footstool lie,
Thy creatures purchas’d by thy blood,
And holy, holy, holy cry,
In honor of the Tri-une God;

Verse 5
With angels, and archangels join,
With all the ransom’d sons of grace
Extol the Majesty Divine,
And breathe unutterable praise.

Verse 6
We praise thy constancy of love
Which kept its fav’rite to the end;
Which soon shall all our souls remove
Who trust in our Eternal Friend:

Verse 7
To us who in thy blood believe
The world, the fiend, and sin tread down,
Thou wilt the final victory give,
And then the bright, triumphant crown.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “On the Death of the Revd. Mr William Grimshaw.” Wesley included this hymn in a manuscript known as MS Funeral Hymns. This manuscript appears in the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library at The University of Manchester, accession number MA 1977/578 (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. 6 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 306.
Publishing: Public Domain