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2364. Hail Father, Whose Creating Call

1. Hail, Father, whose creating call
Unnumbered worlds attend;
Jehovah, comprehending all,
Whom none can comprehend!

2. In light unsearchable enthroned,
Whom angels dimly see,
The fountain of the Godhead owned,
And foremost of the Three.

3. From Thee, through an eternal now,
The Son, Thine offspring, flowed;
An everlasting father Thou,
An everlasting God.

4. Nor quite displayed to worlds above,
Nor quite on earth concealed;
By wondrous, unexhausted love,
To mortal man revealed.

5. Supreme and all-sufficient God,
When nature shall expire,
And worlds created by Thy nod
Shall perish by Thy fire.

6. Thy name, Jehovah, be adored
By creatures without end,
Whom none but Thy essential Word
And Spirit comprehend.

Text Information
First Line: Hail, Father, whose creating call
Title: Hail Father, Whose Creating Call
Author: Samuel Wesley, Jr. (1736)
Meter: CM
Language: English
Source: Poems on Several Occasions, 1736
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: SEMPER ASPECTEMUS
Composer: John Hornsey Casson (1875)
Meter: CM
Incipit: 55433 32156 71765
Key: E Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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