Wesley Corpus

Gloria Patri VIII Source: Hymns on God's Everlasting Love (1742) Author: Charles Wesley --- God of infinite compassion, Thou hast gave Christ to save All in every nation. Thou hast all in Christ elected, Not a soul of the whole Was by thee rejected. Father of our common Saviour, All thy grace might embrace, Might have once found favour. Give we to our Lord the glory; Lord, thy love, all may prove, May with us adore thee. For us all thy great salvation, Thou hast wrought, all hast bought By thy bloody passion. Partner of the sinful nature, Lord, thine eye, none pass'd by, No one fallen creature. Hail, thou all-alluring Spirit, All, would we follow thee, Might thy heaven inherit. To all flesh thy grace is given, All beneath feel thy breath Drawing them toward heaven. Thy long-suffering is salvation, Not to seal souls for hell, Not for man's damnation. God the Father thro' the Spirit Shews his Son, makes him known, And applies his merit. Father, Son, and Spirit bless us, One and Three all agree, Three are One in Jesus. God is both the gift and giver, Let us praise his free-grace Now, henceforth, for ever.