Religion
Gloria Patri, 8
From Hymns on God's Everlasting Love, Second Series (1742) · Osborn ed., vol. 3 (1869)
God of infinite compassion,
Thou hast gave Christ to save
All in every nation.
Thou hast all in Christ elected,
Not a soul of the whole
Was by Thee rejected.
Father of our common Saviour,
All Thy grace might embrace,
Might have once found favour.
Give we to our Lord the glory
Lord, Thy love all may prove,
May with us adore Thee.
For us all Thy great salvation
Thou hast wrought; all hast bought
By Thy bloody passion.
Partner of the sinful nature,
Lord, Thine eye none pass1 d by,
No one fallen creature.
Hail, Thou all-alluring Spirit;
All, would we follow Thee,
Might Thy heaven inherit.
To all flesh Thy grace is given,
All beneath feel Thy breath
Drawing them toward heaven.
Thy long-suffering is salvation,
Not to seal souls for hell,
Not for man's damnation.
God the Father through the Spirit
Shows His Son, makes Him known,
And applies His merit.
Father, Son, and Spirit bless us;
One and Three all agree,
Three are One in Jesus.
God is both the Gift and Giver;
Let us praise His free grace
Now, henceforth, for ever.
Codex Note
Attributed to Charles Wesley; Osborn's edition does not distinguish the brothers
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