Almighty Father, God of grace. T. Cotterill. [For Pardon.] A metrical rendering of the Confession from the Book of Common Prayer given in his Selection 1810, and continued in later editions. The ascription here to Cotterill is based on the authority of two marked copies of the 8th edition of the Selection 1819, in the Brooke and Julian Libraries. Original text in Snepp's Songs of Grace & Glory 1872, No. 451.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Almighty Father, God of grace, p. 52, ii. This hymn was first published in the Uttoxeter Collection, 1805.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)