Jesu, thy far-extended fame

Jesu, thy far-extended fame. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788).  First published in Volume 1 of Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749), the two-volume collection that Charles Wesley published with his brother’s approval, to further Charles’s marriage. It had twelve stanzas. In A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780) John Wesley* printed eight of them, omitting stanzas 2, 4, 9, 10. His text was as follows:  Jesu, thy far-extended fame   My drooping soul exults to hear: Thy name, thy all-restoring name,   Is music in the sinner’s ear.  Sinners of old thou didst receive,   With comfortable words and kind; Their sorrows cheer, their wants relieve,   Heal the diseased, and...