Come all who truly bear the name of Christ your Lord

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Come all who truly bear the name of Christ your Lord

Author: Charles Wesley
Tune: ST. MICHAEL (Genevan)
Published in 12 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	Ten Chorale Improvisations, Set 5

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1 Come, all who truly bear
The name of Christ your Lord,
His last mysterious supper share,
And keep His kindest word.

2 Hereby your faith approve
In Jesus crucified;
"In memory of My dying love,
Do this," He said, and died.

3 Then let us still profess
Our Master's honoured name;
Stand forth His faithful witnesses,
True followers of the Lamb.

4 In proof that such we are,
His saying we receive,
And thus to all mankind declare
We do in Christ believe.

5 Who thus our faith employ,
His sufferings to record,
Even now we mournfully enjoy
Communion with our Lord.

6 We too with Him are dead,
And shall with Him arise;
The cross on which He bows His head
Shall lift us to the skies.

Source: Methodist Hymn and Tune Book: official hymn book of the Methodist Church #260

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Author: Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >

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