Father of Jesus Christ, my Lord

Father of Jesus Christ, my Lord. Charles Wesley (1707-1788). From Hymns and Sacred Poems (1742), where it was entitled ‘Romans iv.16, &c.’. In the 1780 Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists it was included by John Wesley* in the section ‘For Believers Groaning for Full Redemption’, with the omission of stanzas 4, 6, 10-12, and 16-19, to make a hymn of eleven 4-line stanzas. The original hymn of twenty 4-line stanzas is a most interesting exposition of the discussion of Abraham in chapter 4 of Romans. Verse 16 in the KJV is as follows: Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only...

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