The God of all grace

Verse 1
The God of all grace,
To restore a lost race,
Hath rais’d up his Son,
And sent him again in the Comforter down!
Ye sinners, believe,
And your Saviour receive,
By his Father bestow’d
That ye all may return to the bosom of God.

Verse 2
God sent him to bless
With unspeakable peace
The children of men,
That ye here may his favor and image regain:
T’was his only design
By the Spirit divine
To redeem you from woe,
And indulge with a taste of your heaven below.

Verse 3
He is ready to prove
The truth of his love:
And when Jesus reveals
Your pardon obtain’d, he his office fulfils;
He bids you be clean
From the nature of sin
Thro’ the power of his blood,
And he makes your hearts happy, by making them good.

Verse 4
Repent and believe,
And the blessing receive,
The felicity pure,
The salvation of God which shall always endure:
Your Saviour embrace
With his fulness of grace,
And hold fast the high Prize,
And live upon earth as they live in the skies.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘God having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.”—[Acts 3,] v. 26.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 167.
Publishing: Public Domain