The Cyber Hymnal ‎#1591

1591. For One Imprisoned for Righteousness' Sake

1. Father of everlasting grace,
Thy awful providence we own,
Holy and just are all Thy ways,
Thy name be praised, Thy will be done.

2. Thy wise permissive will be bliss
Which lets the sons of night succeed,
With lawless might Thy servant seize
And trample on his guiltless head.

3. By Satan into prison cast,
His bonds Thy Gospel shall proclaim,
And Thou shalt bring him forth at last,
In honor of Thy glorious name.

4. Lord, we believe against his foes,
Thou soon shalt laugh their rage to scorn,
Confound who Thee and Thine oppose,
And all their hellish strength o’erturn.

Text Information

• First Line: Father of everlasting grace
• Title: For One Imprisoned for Righteousness' Sake
• Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788
• Meter: LM
• Language: English
• Source: The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, by S. T. Kimbrough, Jr., & Oliver A. Beckerlegge (Nashville, Tennessee: Abingdon Press, 1992), page 311
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: Alternate tunes: HEBRON, Lowell Mason, 1830; HESPERUS, Henry Baker, 1854; MISSIONARY CHANT, Heinrich C. Zeuner, 1832

Tune Information

• Name: MAINZER
• Composer: Joseph Mainzer (ca. 1845)
• Meter: LM
• Incipit: 55517 66564 53176
• Key: C Major
• Copyright: Public Domain