Come, let us who in Christ believe. C. Wesley. [Praise to Christ.] Appeared in his Hymns on God's Everlasting Love, 2nd Series, Lond. 1741, No. 8, in 14 stanzas of 4 lines. In the Wesleyan Hymn Book, 1780, stanzas i., xii., xiii., xiv. were given as No. 200. This cento has been repeated in various collections in Great Britain and America, and is the received form of the hymn. See Wesleyan Hymn Book, 1875, No. 208, and the American Methodist Episcopal Hymnal , 1878, No. 28 (Poetical Works, 1868-72, vol. iii. p. 64).
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)