Sinners, obey the gospel word

Sinners, obey the gospel word. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). From Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749), the first book that Charles Wesley published (in order to pay for his marriage) under his own name but with his brother’s approval. It was in a section entitled ‘Hymns for Believers’, and was headed ‘Come, for all things are now ready’ (from Luke 14: 17). It had ten stanzas. It was included by John Wesley* as one of the Introductory Hymns, ‘Exhorting, and beseeching to return to God’, in A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780). It is one of the most forthright and direct of Charles Wesley’s appeals, showing his compassionate concern for sinners. It remained in...

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