Father who art in heaven

Verse 1
Father who art in heaven, (Matt. 6:9, Luke 11:2)
Th’ omnipotent I AM, (Ex. 3:14, Rev. 19:6)
Homage Divine be given
To thy most holy Name; (Ps. 99:3, Ps. 111:9, Matt. 6:9, Luke 11:2)
Thine attributes and nature
Let all thy works display, (Rom. 1:20)
And praise their great Creator
Thro’ one eternal day.

Verse 2
Our first and last desire
That all our God may own,
Thy Majesty admire,
And worship at thy throne;
That all may bow before thee,
Jesus, thy power assume, (Isa. 45:23, Rom. 14:11, Phil. 2:10)
And manifest thy glory,
And let thy kingdom come. (Matt. 6:10, Luke 11:2, John 2:11, Rev. 11:15)

Verse 3
The virtue of thy Spirit
To every soul impart,
And let us here inherit
The kingdom in our heart, (Luke 17:21)
The evangelic Blessing,
Inviolable peace,
Celestial joy unceasing, (I Thess. 5:16)
And finish’d holiness. (I Thess. 5:23)

Verse 4
Thy kingdom’s restoration
O might we feel within, (Matt. 6:10, Luke 11:2)
Thine uttermost salvation (Heb. 7:25)
Extirminating sin! (I John 3:5)
Let sin and Satan’s power
At thy appearing fall, (II Thess. 2:8)
And all on earth adore
The glorious Lord of all. (Acts 10:36, Phil. 2:9-11)

Verse 5
Thy Spirit of inspiration
Pour out on all below, (Joel 2:28-29, Acts 2:17-18)
And perfect renovation
Our ruin’d earth shall know, (Acts 3:21, Rev. 21:5)
The nations all shall bless thee (Ps. 72:17)
In that millennial day, (Rev. 20:4)
And every tongue confess thee,
And every heart obey. (Isa. 45:23, Rom. 14:11, Phil. 2:11)

Verse 6
The fulness of thy graces,
Of thy own Godhead give, (John 1:16, Eph. 3:19, Col. 2:9-10)
And in thy kind embraces
Our fallen race receive:
Thro’ love’s most large effusion
Let us the Promise find, (Acts 2:39, Rom. 5:5, Tit. 3:6)
The general restitution, (Acts 3:21, Col. 1:20)
The life of all mankind. (I Cor. 15:22, I Tim. 4:10)

Verse 7
Thy kingdom’s fruits mature
O that we all may bring, (John 15:8, Col. 1:10)
Obedience full and pure,
And worthy of our King:
Thy holy will be ours,
Thy holy will alone,
As by the heavenly powers,
By all on earth be done. (Matt. 6:10, Luke 11:2)

Verse 8
No pause or intermission
Th’ Angelic service knows, (Rev. 4:8)
While the Transporting Vision
Their vast reward bestows, (Matt. 18:10, I Pet. 1:12, Rev. 22:3-4)
With that inraptur’d quire
Let every creature gaze,
And earth and heaven conspire
In thy eternal praise. (Ps. 148:1-13, Rev. 5:11-13)

Verse 9
While in the flesh we tarry,
We ask our daily bread: (Matt. 6:11, Luke 11:3)
With all things necessary
Thy crying children feed:
And while Thou spread’st a table
Our bodies to supply, (Ps. 23:5)
With meat imperishable (John 6:27)
Sustain us from the sky.

Verse 10
Father, for Jesus’ merit
To the unworthy give
That strength-restoring Spirit, (John 14:16-17)
By whom we truly live; (Rom. 8:11, Gal. 5:25)
Send down the gracious shower, (Ezek. 34:26)
The manna from above, (Ex. 16:4, Ex. 16:31-35, Num. 11:6-9, Deut. 8:3, Deut. 8:16, Joshua 5:12, Neh. 9:20, Ps. 78:24-25, John 6:49, John 6:58, Heb. 9:4, Rev. 2:17)
And now, and evermore
Refresh our souls with love.

Verse 11
On us bestow the pardon
Bought by his precious blood, (Acts 20:28, Eph. 1:7, Col. 1:14, I Pet. 1:18-19, Rev. 5:9)
Who paid the utmost farthing (Matt. 5:26, Luke 12:59)
We to thy justice owed:
The peace, and consolation
Incomprehensible, (Phil. 4:7)
The knowledge of salvation
To all our hearts reveal. (Luke 1:77)

Verse 12
Pardon’d without condition,
Our debtors we release, (Matt. 6:12, Luke 11:4)
With free and full remission
Of all their trespasses; (Matt. 6:12, Matt. 6:14-15, Matt. 18:35, Luke 11:4, Eph. 4:32, Col. 3:13)
The bowels of our Saviour
As we to them extend,
Preserve us in thy favor,
And pardon to the end.

Verse 13
From trials unexempted
Thy dearest children are;
But let us not be tempted
Above what we can bear:
Expos’d to no temptation
That may our souls o’repow’r, (Matt. 6:13, Luke 11:4, I Cor. 10:13)
Be Thou our strong salvation (Isa. 12:2)
Thro’ every fiery hour.

Verse 14
Ah, leave us not to venture
Within the verge of sin: (Matt. 6:13, Luke 11:4)
Or if the snare we enter,
Thy timely help bring in: (II Pet. 2:9)
And if thy wisdom try us,
Till pain and life are past,
Almighty Love, stand by us,
And save from first to last. (Heb. 7:25)

Verse 15
Deliver us from evil,
From every evil here, (Matt. 6:13, Luke 11:4)
The world, the flesh, the devil,
His works and character: (Eph. 2:2-3)
A total abolition
Of all his works I see, (I John 3:8)
Compriz’d in this petition,
And promis’d, Lord, to me.

Verse 16
Fain would we cease from sinning (I Pet. 4:1)
In thought and word and deed,
From sin in its beginning
We languish to be freed:
From every base desire,
Our fallen nature’s shame,
Jesus, we dare require
Deliverance in thy Name. (Acts 4:12)

Verse 17
For every sinful action
Thou hast atonement made (I John 1:7, I John 2:2)
The rigid satisfaction
Thy precious blood has paid; (Isa. 53:11, I Pet. 1:18-19)
But take intire possession;
To make an end of sin,
To finish the transgression, (Dan. 9:24)
Most holy God, come in.

Verse 18
The mind of earthly savour, (Matt. 16:23, Mark 8:33)
The carnal enmity,
Which hates our God, and never
Can subject prove to Thee, (Rom. 8:7)
The old rebellious nature
With all its relicks slay, (Rom. 6:6, Eph. 4:22, Col. 3:9)
Appear our New-Creator,
And bring the perfect day. (Prov. 4:18, II Cor. 5:17, Gal. 6:15, Eph. 4:24)

Verse 19
Fulfilling thy own prayer,
Destroy this fleshly mind, (John 17:17, Rom. 8:7)
Sin by the roots uptear,
No evil leave behind,
This huge enormous mountain
Of inbred guilt remove,
Dry up corruption’s fountain,
And fill our souls with love. (Eph. 3:18-19)

Verse 20
Essence of holinesses,
Jesus, Thou only art, (Rev. 15:4)
With plenitude of graces (John 1:16)
Inhabiting the heart: (Eph. 3:17)
Tis thus Thou dost deliver (II Tim. 4:18)
Thine own in Thee secure, (John 10:28-29)
And keepest us forever (Jude 1:24)
From all pollution pure.