The Patriarchal God,
To our forefathers known,
Hath gracious signs and wonders show’d
In honour of his Son,
Hath fallen spirits rais’d,
Hath guilty souls forgiven,
That Jesus may be own’d, and prais’d
By all in earth and heaven:
Jesus deliver’d o’re
To suffer in our stead,
By his eternal Spirit’s power
Is risen from the dead;
The just and holy One
By sinful men denied,
Again He fills his Father’s throne,
And triumphs at his side.
The Patriarchal God
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The God of our fathers hath glorified his Son Jesus, whom ye delivered &c.’—[Acts 3,] v. 13.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 291.
Publishing: Public Domain