Lamb of God, whose dying love

Lamb of God, whose dying love. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). From Hymns on the Lord’s Supper (1745), section 1, ‘As it is a Memorial of the Sufferings and Death of Christ’. The first line was ‘Lamb of God, whose Bleeding Love’, a line that was altered in William John Hall* and Edward Osler*’s Psalms and Hymns adapted to the Services of the Church of England (1836) (‘The Mitre Hymn Book’*), and which was subsequently adopted by most books. It had four stanzas, with the last two lines of each stanza as a refrain, ‘O remember Calvary,/ And bid us go in Peace’. Many books, including the Wesleyan Methodist Hymn Book (1904) and MHB, shortened the hymn to three stanzas, omitting the original...