Come, O thou all-victorious Lord
Come, O thou all-victorious Lord. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788).
First published in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749) in seven 4-line stanzas, with the title ‘Written before Preaching at Portland’. Charles Wesley’s journal records his visit in June 1746 to the Isle of Portland, where stone quarrying was the chief occupation. It seems probable that the first stanza of the hymn, with the lines ‘Strike with the hammer of thy word,/And break these hearts of stone!’ was a metaphor which suggested itself while observing the men at work; or it may have been designed to attract the quarrymen’s attention in the ‘preaching’ of the hymn’s title.
The hymn was included in John Wesley*’s A Collection of Hymns...
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