Thy great commission to fulfil
And answer all thy Father’s will,
His word Thou hast declar’d to man,
His word is not distinct from thine,
But Father, Son, and Spirit join
To make the hidden myst’ry plain:
The whole Divine oeconomy
Appointed and prescrib’d to Thee
Saviour, Thou hast display’d below:
And still Thou dost thy grace impart,
And still in every faithful heart
The way to heavenly glory shew.
Thy great commission to fulfill
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘For I have not spoken of myself: but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and how I should speak.’—[John 12,] v. 49." 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 498.
Publishing: Public Domain