Introduction
Words: Charles Wesley, Short Hymns (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762), volume 2, number 826, alt.
Music: St. Olave (Barnby) Joseph Barnby (1838–1896) (🔊 pdf nwc).
I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last.
Revelation 1:11
Words: Charles Wesley, Short Hymns (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762), volume 2, number 826, alt.
Music: St. Olave (Barnby) Joseph Barnby (1838–1896) (🔊 pdf nwc).
Jesus, the first and last,
On Thee my soul is cast:
Thou didst Thy work begin
By blotting out my sin;
Thou wilt the root remove,
Perfecting me in love.
Yet when the work is done,
The work is but begun:
Partaker of Thy grace,
I long to see Thy face;
The first I prove below,
The last I die to know.