Lord, we believe to us and ours
Lord, we believe to us and ours. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788).
First published in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1742), as part of a hymn beginning ‘Rejoice, rejoice, ye fallen race’. It had the title ‘Hymn for the Day of Pentecost’:
Rejoice, rejoice, ye fallen race, The Day of Pentecost is come! Expect the Sure-descending Grace, Open your Hearts to make him Room.
It was not included by John Wesley* in A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780), no doubt because that book concentrates on individual religious experience rather than on the great festivals of the church; but part of it entered Methodist books in a Supplement (before 1831) in a hymn beginning...
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