Eternal Son, eternal Love

Eternal Son, eternal Love. John Wesley* (1703-1791). First published in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1742), as part of a long hymn of nine 8-line stanzas headed ‘The Lord’s Prayer Paraphrased’. In the 1780 Collection of Hymns for the use of the People called Methodists it was divided into three hymns of three stanzas each. The first began ‘Father of all, whose powerful voice’*, and the third ‘Eternal, spotless Lamb of God’*. This second part began ‘Son of thy Sire’s eternal love’, which remained the first line until the Wesleyan Methodist Hymn Book of 1904, which changed it to ‘Eternal Son, eternal Love’. That book also printed the hymn in six 4-line stanzas. In 1780 it was in three 8-line...

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