Come and let us sweetly join (1)

Come and let us sweetly join. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). This hymn was Part I of a long hymn in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740), entitled ‘The Love-Feast’. It was in five parts, most divided into sub-sections. From it John Wesley* made four hymns in A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780) as hymns 505 to 508, in 8-line stanzas, as parts of ‘The Love-feast’. These began: Part I: ‘Come, and let us sweetly join’, hymn 505 Part II: ‘Come, thou high and lofty Lord’, hymn 506 Part III: ‘Let us join (’tis God commands)’, hymn 507 Part IV: ‘Partners of a glorious hope’, hymn 508 In ‘Wesley’s Hymns’ (1876) this arrangement was followed, as hymns 519 to 522, and in...