Saviour, and can it be

Saviour, and can it be. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). From Hymns on the Lord’s Supper (1745), which consisted of the abridgement by John Wesley* of The Christian Sacrament and Sacrifice (Oxford, 1673) by Daniel Brevint (1616-1695), followed by hymns by Charles Wesley. This one comes from Part II, ‘As it [the Sacrament] is a Sign and a Means of Grace’. This is the same section that includes ‘O Thou who this mysterious bread’* and ‘O the depth of love divine’*. It had three 6-line stanzas. It corresponds to a passage in Brevint’s Section IV: What I offer, is indeed an Unclean Habitation to receive the Holy One of Israel. Come in nevertheless, Thou Eternal Priest; but cleanse thy House at thy...

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