Hail, Father, whose creating call

Hail, Father, whose creating call. Samuel Wesley (II)* (1691-1739). First published in the Weekly Miscellany, 27 July, 1734, and then in Poems on Special Occasions (1736), where it was the first poem, entitled ‘An Hymn to God the Father’. It began: Hail, Father! Whose creating Call   Unnumber’d Worlds attend; JEHOVAH! comprehending all,   Whom none can comprehend. It was included by John Wesley* in his first hymnbook (see John Wesley's Collection of Psalms and Hymns (1737)*), with very little alteration. He did not include it in A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780), but it was added as the first hymn in the Supplement published in 1831. It was in...