Come, sinners, to the Gospel feast

Come, sinners, to the Gospel feast. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). First published in Hymns for those that seek and those that have Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ (1747) in twenty-four 4-line stanzas, entitled ‘The Great Supper, Luke xiv.16-24’. Stanzas 1, 2, 12, 14, 19-22 and 24 were included in John Wesley*’s A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780), in the opening section, ‘Exhorting sinners to return to God’, and in the 1831 and 1876 editions of the Collection. Shorter versions have appeared in subsequent Methodist books in Britain and America. UMH prints the hymn twice, with the same stanza 1, followed by different selections of stanzas from the...

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