The Word was independent God,
God uncreated and supreme:
All things from him their fountain flow’d,
Whate’er was made, was made by him:
When heaven and earth began to be,
The glorious absolute I AM,
He was from all eternity
To all eternity the same.
The Word was independent God
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “'THE WORD WAS GOD.'—John i. 1.” Introduced in Charles Wesley, Hymns on the Trinity (Bristol: William Pine, 1767). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 7 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 219.
Publishing: Public Domain