Father of everlasting grace/ Be mindful
Father of everlasting grace/ Be mindful. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788).
Charles Wesley sometimes used and re-used lines that he found graceful or appropriate. This hymn has the same opening as the better known ‘Father of everlasting grace’*, found in many Methodist (and some other) books, published in Hymns of Petition and Thanksgiving for the Promise of the Father (Bristol, 1746).
The present hymn, which has been used in a few books in the USA and Canada (see below), is from Volume I of Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (Bristol, 1762). It is from the hymn on II Chronicles 6: 20-21. It was preceded by these verses: ‘That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and...
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Chicago style (see The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Ed.)
. "Father of everlasting grace/ Be mindful."
The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology. Canterbury Press, accessed January 15, 2026,
http://www.hymnology.co.uk/f/father-of-everlasting-grace-be-mindful.