Thou canst not, Lord, subsist alone,
As different, or distinct from Him,
With God inseparably one,
The same eternal God supreme:
Thy judgments are thy Father’s too,
His judgments and decrees are thine,
And therefore all thy works are true,
And works of Righteousness Divine.
Thou canst not Lord subsist alone
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.’—[John 8,] v. 16." 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 420.
Publishing: Public Domain