When Abraham was not born, I AM

Verse 1
“When Abraham was not born, I AM,
[“]I AM from all eternity!”
Jehovah sounds in Jesus Name,
God over all we worship Thee;
Sole self-existing God Thou art,
Ador’d in every faithful heart.

Verse 2
Not a new-made dependant God,
But Sovereign, Absolute, Most-high,
Thou cam’st to save us by thy blood,
Thou cam’st for sinful man to die,
That all mankind might live forgiven
Thro’ Thee, the only God in heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Before Abraham was, I am.’—[John 8,] v. 58." 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 435.
Publishing: Public Domain