A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists (1830)/Hymn 90

by Charles Wesley

* HYMN 90. L. M.

1THUS saith the Lord of earth and heaven,
The King of Israel and his God,
Who hath for all a ransom given,
And bought a guilty world with blood:
"I am from all eternity;
To all eternity I am:
There is none other God but Me;
Jehovah is my glorious Name.

2"The Rise and End, the First and Last,
The Alpha and Omega I;
Who could, like me, ordain the past,
Or who the things to come descry?
Foolish is all their strife, and vain,
To' invade the property divine;
'Tis mine the work undone to' explain,
To call the future now is mine.

3"Fear not, my own peculiar race;
I have to thee my counsel show'd,
The word of sure prophetic grace,
And told thee all the mind of God.
Ye are my witnesses, to you
My name and nature are made known;
Ye only can your seal set to,
That I am God, and God alone."