O Thou whom once they flocked to hear

O Thou whom once they flocked to hear. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). From Volume 1 of Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749), the two-volume book published by Charles Wesley with his brother’s approval to assist Charles’s marriage. It was ‘Hymn IV’ of a number of hymns under the heading ‘Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.’ Hymn II of this section was the better-known ‘Jesus, thy far-extended Fame’*.  The present hymn had ten stanzas in 1749: O Thou, whom once They flock’d to hear,   Thy Words to hear, Thy Power to feel, Suffer the Sinners to draw near,   And graciously receive us still. They that be whole, Thyself hast said,   No Need of a Physician have: But I am...

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