Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: Sovereign of all the worlds on high
Topic: God Perfect
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 235
Page Number: 224, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsSovereign of all the worlds on high,
Allow my humble claim;
Nor, while a worm would raise its head,
Disdain a Father's name.
My father God! How sweet the sound!
How tender, and how dear!
Not all the harmony of heaven
Could so delight the ear.
Come sacred Spirit, seal the name
On my expanding heart;
And shew that in Jehovah's grace
I share a filial part.
Cheer'd by a signal so divine,
Unwavering I believe;
And Abba, Father, humbly cry,
Nor can the sign deceive.