Come, let us use the grace divine

Come, let us use the grace divine. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). First published in Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (Bristol, 1762) in three 8-line stanzas, on Jeremiah 50: 5 (‘Come, and let us join ourselves to the Lord, in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten’). It was included by John Wesley* in the section ‘For the Society Praying’ in A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780); and it was included in both the 19th-century editions of the Collection and in all 20th-century British Methodist hymnbooks: Come, let us use the grace divine,  And all with one accordIn a perpetual covenant join  Ourselves to Christ our Lord. Give...