Come, let us use the grace divine. C. Wesley. [Confirmation.] First published in his Short Hymns, &c, 1762, vol. ii., No. 1242, in 3 stanzas of 8 lines, and based upon Jer. 1. 5 (Poetical Works, 1868-72, vol. x. p. 40). In 1780 it was included in the Wesleyan Hymn Book, No. 518, from whence it has passed into other collections of the Methodist bodies. It was also given by Montgomery in his Christian Psalmist, 1825, and is found in some Nonconformist collections. The form in which it is usually given in the Church of England hymnals appeared in Bickersteth's Christian Psalmody, 1833, as, “Come, let us seek the grace of God," as in Snepp's Songs of Grace & Glory, 1872
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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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