All thanks to the Lamb

All thanks to the Lamb. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). This was first published in Volume 2 of Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749), the book issued by Charles Wesley alone, but with his brother’s approval. It had seven stanzas: All Thanks to the Lamb  Who gives us to meet! His Love we proclaim,  His Praises repeat: We own Him our Jesus  Continually near,        (in 1749  ‘Continally’) To pardon and bless us, And perfect us here. In Him we have Peace,  In Him we have Power, Preserv’d by his Grace  Throughout the dark Hour, In all our Temptation  He keeps us, to prove His utmost Salvation,  His Fulness of Love. Thro’ Pride and Desire  Unhurt we have gone, Thro’ Water and Fire  With us He went...