Hail, Father, Whose creating call. J. Wesley, jun. [Adoration of God the Father.] First published as No. 1 of his Poems on Several Occasions, 1736, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines, and entitled, "A hymn to God the Father." It was repeated in the 2nd edition, 1743; and in Nicholls's reprint, 1862, p. 365. In the Psalms & Hymns published by J. Wesley at Charlestown, South Carolina, 1736-7, it is No. 11. It was not included in the Wesleyan Hymn Book until the Supplement 1830, No. 561 (revised edition, 1875, No. 642); although as "Hail, Father, Whose commanding call" it was given in Toplady's Psalms & Hymns, 1776, No. 189.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Hail, Father, Whose creating call, p. 477, ii. This hymn by S. Wesley, jun., is omitted from the Methodist Hymn Book , 1904, but is retained in the 1904 edition of Hymns Ancient & Modern in the form given to it in the Supp. A. & M., 1889.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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