Wisdom and power to God belong

Verse 1
Wisdom and power to God belong!
Thou dost o’rerule the pontiff’s tongue
Beyond himself, to prophesy:
The year of thy redeem’d is come
Thy outcasts must be gather’d home,
And one for all the people die:
Such thy unchangeable decree;
Thy Son the Sacrifice shall be,
And bleed in a whole nation’s place:
He dies; but not for Jews alone,
His blood shall ransom and atone
For every child of Adam’s race.

Verse 2
He hath for all been offer’d up,
The world’s Desire, the nation’s Hope
Partition’s wall hath broken down:
His death’s effects we all partake,
Gentiles and Jews his body make,
Gather’d, and sanctified in one:
Thou dost to every longing heart
The Spirit of thy Son impart,
Thro’ which we Abba Father cry,
While in the power of simple love
The fellowship of saints we prove,
And join thy church beyond the sky.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘This spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation &c.’—[John 11,] v. 51, 52." 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 483.
Publishing: Public Domain