When full four thousand years are past

Verse 1
When full four thousand years are past,
The destin’d hour arrives at last
For God to glorify his Son:
Again the Father’s arms receive
With Him in his own joy to live
The Partner of his heavenly throne!
Again th’ angelic hosts adore
Their Maker-God, who was before
Angel or man began to be;
Who now resumes his sovereign right,
Brightness of uncreated Light,
I AM from all eternity!

Verse 2
Saviour and Prince inthron’d on high,
Thou dost thy Father glorify,
His majesty on earth display,
Who sent thee from his bosom down,
To make his love and justice known,
The universal debt to pay:
Thou dost his Name to man declare,
And stamp us with the character,
The truth and holiness divine,
The depths of deity reveal,
Thy members with thy Spirit seal,
That God in all his saints may shine.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee.’—[John 17,] v. 1." 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 47.
Publishing: Public Domain