The everlasting God is He

Verse 1
The everlasting God is He,
And was from all eternity,
Who in his Father’s bosom lay,
And doth on earth his form display;
The things He saw, and heard, and knew
Of these he bears a record true,
Discovers the redeeming plan,
And shews the heart of God to man.

Verse 2
Freely he left his throne above,
To tell the world that God is Love;
Yet few the saving truth receive,
Or dare on Jesus’ word believe:
Not one of our unfaithful race
Doth of himself his Lord embrace,
We all reject whom God hath given,
The Witness, and the Man from heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.’—[John 3,] v. 32." 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 350.
Publishing: Public Domain