Come, let us with our Lord arise
Come, let us with our Lord arise. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788).
First published in Hymns for Children (1763), entitled ‘For the Lord’s Day’, in four 6-line stanzas. The hymn was not included in A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780), but it appeared in the later edition known as ‘Wesley’s Hymns’ (1876), in MHB and in HP. It has also been used in a number of Anglican and Free Church hymnbooks, including CP and A&MCP. The full original text, which has rarely been varied, may be found in Frank Baker’s Representative Verse of Charles Wesley (1962), p.144:
Come, let us with our Lord arise,Our Lord who made both earth abd skies,Who died to save the world He...
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