Father of everlasting grace

Father of everlasting grace. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). First published in Hymns of Petition and Thanksgiving for the Promise of the Father (1746) in eight 6-line stanzas. It was the first of 32 ‘Hymns for Whitsunday', the sub-title of this short book of 35 pages. Stanzas 1, 6, 7 and 8 of the original were included in John Wesley*’s A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780) in the section ‘For Believers groaning for full Redemption’; in subsequent Wesleyan Methodist hymnbooks and later ones, MHB, HP , Singing the Faith (in the last in the ‘you’ form, and with other alterations): Father of everlasting grace,Thy goodness and thy truth we praise,  Thy goodness...