The Son obeys the will Divine

Verse 1
The Son obeys the will Divine,
Conducted step by step below;
But we our Father’s whole design
Concerning us at once would know:
The Word, the true essential Light
Doth still, as taught of God, proceed;
But darker than Egyptian night
We boldly aim ourselves to lead.

Verse 2
In honour of the Infant-God
Henceforth I his obedience trace,
The light by just degrees bestow’d
Attend, the Providential grace;
Observant of a Father’s word,
Led with a child’s docility,
Jesus, my Pattern and my Lord,
In life and death I follow Thee.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Being warned of God, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee.’—[Matt. 2,] v. 22.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 144.
Publishing: Public Domain