Almighty Father, Unoriginate

Almighty Fa­ther

un­orig­in­ate

Whom no man hath seen ev­er

nor can see;

Who reign­est blest and on­ly po­ten­tate

Light un­ap­proach­able en­circ­ling Thee:

Almighty Fa­ther

hal­lowed be Thy name;

Who ev­er art

un­change­ably the same.

Thou lov­est us

else had we nev­er been:

Before we were

in ag­es long ago

Thy love had us and all our wants fore­seen

Creating us that we Thy love might know

Yea

Fa­ther

Thou

in whom we live and move

Hast loved us with an ev­er­last­ing love.

Thou mad­est man im­mor­tal at the first

An im­age of Thine own eter­ni­ty;

And when he fell from life

through sin ac­cursed

And lost his right to the life giv­ing tree

Thy love

un­con­quered would to him re­store

His life en­no­bled and for­ev­er­more.

Such was Thy love

Thou didst not ev­en spare

Thy Best-be­loved

but gav’st Him for us all;

To live that hu­man life be­yond com­pare

And dy­ing

by His death re­trieve our fall.

In Him Thy love un­bound­ed we be­hold

For

giv­ing Him

Thou canst not aught with­hold.

Thou know­est what we are

how frail and blind

Thou still re­mem­ber­est that we are but dust:

Like as a fa­ther pi­ti­eth

Thou art kind

Thy jus­tice kind­ness

and Thy kind­ness just.

Then hear Thy child­ren’s pray­er

From Heav’n Thy throne;

Father

Thy king­dom come; Thy will be done.