Come, Saviour Jesu, from above
Come, Saviour Jesu, from above. Antoinette Bourignon* (1616-1680), translated by John Wesley* (1703-1791).
Antoinette Bourignon’s hymn began ‘Venez, Jésus, mon salutaire’. It was translated, probably by John Wesley (the attribution to John Byrom* is unlikely), and published in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739), in ten 4-line verses. For the 1780 Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists Wesley omitted verses 5 and 10:
To Thee my earnest soul aspires,
To Thee I offer all my vows;
Keep me from false and vain desires
My God, my Saviour, and my Spouse….
Thy gifts, if call’d for, I resign,
Pleased to receive, pleased to restore:
Gifts are Thy work: it shall be...
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