Come, sinner, to the gospel feast
Come, sinner, to the gospel feast. Nineteenth century, author unknown.
This hymn is annotated under Charles Wesley*’s ‘Come, sinners, to the Gospel feast’* in JJ, p. 251. It is attributed in some books, such as Henry Ward Beecher*’s Plymouth Collection*, to ‘Huntingdon’ (see ‘Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon’*). There were many variants of hymns in editions of the Countess of Huntingdon’s hymnals, and the first line obviously derives from Wesley’s hymn: but this hymn is exceptional in its difference from the original, and the evidence suggests a much later date. Although JJ points out that in later editions of The Selection of Hymns sung in the Countess of Huntingdon’s Chapel...
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