The Sender (for it cannot be)

Verse 1
The Sender (for it cannot be)
Is never separate from the Sent,
Who join’d to his Divinity
Our flesh, his sacred instrument,
The Father leaves him not alone,
But lives eternal in his Son.

Verse 2
Obedient to his Father’s will,
The Son for us obtain’d the grace
All his commandments to fulfil,
T’ abide in all his righteous ways,
To walk in all well-pleasing here,
And pure before his face t’ appear.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone: for I always do those things which please him.’—[John 8,] v. 29." 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 425.
Publishing: Public Domain