{"id":25678,"date":"2025-09-03T06:06:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T06:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=25678"},"modified":"2025-09-03T06:08:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T06:08:41","slug":"my-true-sovereign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/09\/my-true-sovereign\/","title":{"rendered":"My True Sovereign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 O my True Sovereign Great Father of Lights<\/p>\n<p>Potter Eternal O merciful and bright<\/p>\n<p>Favoured Thine vessel Of silver and gold<\/p>\n<p>Specially chosen Above earthly wood.<\/p>\n<p>2 O my True Sovereign Great Father of Lights<\/p>\n<p>Perfect Eternal All powerful and might<\/p>\n<p>Not of mine own hands Nor vain hollow words<\/p>\n<p>Specially chosen Beyond ages past.<\/p>\n<p>3 O my True Sovereign Great Father of Lights<\/p>\n<p>Pure and Unchangeable Thou my delight<\/p>\n<p>Born of the Spirit Remade in Thy Word<\/p>\n<p>Specially chosen By Thine own decree.<\/p>\n<p>4 O my True Sovereign Great Father of Lights<\/p>\n<p>Power Ineffable \u00a0Righteous and right<\/p>\n<p>Jesu mine own Lord Redeemer by blood<\/p>\n<p>Specially chosen True subject of love.<\/p>\n<p>5 O my True Sovereign Great Father of Lights<\/p>\n<p>Patiently Loving True justice and might<\/p>\n<p>Not of this world A pilgrim am I<\/p>\n<p>Specially chosen Mine burden is light.<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"25678\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 O my True Sovereign Great Father of Lights<\/p>\n<p>Potter Eternal O merciful and bright<\/p>\n<p>Favoured Thine vessel Of silver and gold<\/p>\n<p>Specially chosen Above earthly wood.<\/p>\n<p>2 O my True Sovereign Great Father of Lights<\/p>\n<p>Perfect Eternal All powerful and might<\/p>\n<p>Not of mine own hands Nor vain hollow words<\/p>\n<p>Specially chosen Beyond ages past.<\/p>\n<p>3 O my True Sovereign Great Father of Lights<\/p>\n<p>Pure and Unchangeable Thou my delight<\/p>\n<p>Born of the Spirit Remade in Thy Word<\/p>\n<p>Specially chosen By Thine own decree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1278],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-25678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-salvation-and-sovereign-grace","tag-divine-worship","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25690,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25678\/revisions\/25690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}