Victim divine, thy grace we claim

Victim divine, thy grace we claim. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). First published in Hymns on the Lord’s Supper (1745) in five 6-line stanzas, in the section entitled ‘The Holy Eucharist as it implies a Sacrifice’. Though it was not included in John Wesley*’s Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780), it appeared in the 1831 edition with Supplement and the 1876 edition (‘Wesley’s Hymns’). From the Methodist Hymn Book (1904) onwards, it has remained in use in British Methodist hymnbooks, though normally omitting stanzas 3 and 4. The text in 1745 was: Victim Divine thy Grace we claim    While thus thy precious Death we shew;Once offer’d up a spotless Lamb,    In...

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