Father of all, whose powerful voice

Father of all, whose powerful voice. John Wesley* (1703-1791). First published in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1742), under the title ‘The Lord’s Prayer Paraphrased’. This was part of a long hymn of nine 8-line stanzas. 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 second part began ‘Son of thy Sire’s eternal love’ (now ‘Eternal Son, eternal Love’*) and the third ‘Eternal, spotless Lamb of God’*. The hymn is one of the few known unquestionably to be by John Wesley. He appended it to his sixth sermon on the Sermon on the Mount (Outler, 1984-87, Volume I, pp. 589-91). The first three stanzas were turned into...

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