Come, divine Interpreter
Come, divine Interpreter. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788).
First published in Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (Bristol, 1762), Volume II no. 821, on Revelation 1: 3, in two 6-line stanzas. It was preceded by the verse: ‘Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein.’
It was not included in John Wesley’s A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780), but it appeared in the 1876 edition of the Collection (‘Wesley’s Hymns’) and has been included in subsequent Methodist hymnbooks, in Britain and America, though it has not commended itself more widely. The text in 1762 was...
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